艾玛·沃特森在世界青年大会上的主题演讲（视频）

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                　　Thank you. (Laughs.) Two years ago, I launched campaign called HeForShe at
the UN in New York. I was very nervous before that speech. The nerves were
followed by a tremendous high immediately afterwards and a crushing low a few
days after that. My best hopes and my worst fears were confirmed all at once. I
had opened Pandora’s Box to a standing ovation and almost simultaneously, a
level of critique I had never experienced in my life and the beginning of what
would become a series of threats.
       
       
                　　The last two years have been a baptism of fire, to say the least, where I
learned just how little I know and also how much. It was my scary first step as
an activist, a word I never imagined that I would use to describe myself. So,
reading the applications of activists who apply here for One Young World
scholarships was surprising to me. Here I was, reading the stories of people
from nearly 200 different countries from around the world with experiences that
I couldn’t even imagine. I mean, I really just – they were so out of this world
to me. And yet, their notes look like my notes. The same themes emerged over and
over and over again. There was so much overlap with the things that I had been
thinking about and that I had been struggling with because the truth is, it had
never been about being an activist. It was about the choice to make myself
visible and the choices that you made to do that, too.
       
       
                　　Apart from the significant progress the world has made in the cause for
equality, the best thing about the last two years has been this: finding people
from such disparate experiences and communities that I found that I have
something in common with. This is a community of artists, spiritual teachers,
dreamers, thinkers, doers, who work together and support each other. For the
first time in my life, I found my sisterhood, a brotherhood, whatever, however
you want to describe it. I found my tribe.
       
       
                　　My hope for you while you’re here is that you will find some of your tribe,
too. I really needed mine. Bobby Kennedy, when he was senator for New York said,
“Each time, a man or woman stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lots
of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of
hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy, those
ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest wall of oppression and
resistance.” That’s what we are doing. We, the entire spectrum of the feminist
movement, are building an unstoppable current, for which we need ripples of hope
from every age, race, ability, walk of life, from every human experience. I feel
gender equality is as important as any of the other goals that we are here to
discuss. And actually, if anything, it is even more important because it
intersects with every single other issue that we face. We all have feminine and
masculine energies within us.
       
       
                　　And both forces need to be lifted up, respected. They need to work together
in order to make the world go round. Each of you are here at One Young World
because you do something important. And it is so exciting to see you all come
together in one room because One Young World isn’t about saying what I, each of
us, individually can do, but what we can do – working together, supporting, and
listening to each other.
       
       
                　　It’s in that spirit that I am delighted to introduce nine activists who are
the first recipients of a One Young World scholarship that I am very honored to
have in my name. They are working to secure real progress towards a gender-equal
world, and I hope that their stories inspire you as much as they have inspired
me. In a moment, I am going to ask them to come onto the stage, but before I do,
I want to offer a few statements of my own that I have struggled with and I
continue to struggle with on a daily basis but that I’ve found inspiring.
       
       
                　　I want to ask you to take a moment, you can keep your eyes closed or keep
them open, and ask yourself if these have any truth for you in them.
       
       
                　　I am willing to be seen.
       
       
                　　I am willing to speak up.
       
       
                　　I am willing to keep going.
       
       
                　　I am willing to listen to what others have to say.
       
       
                　　I am willing to go forward even when I feel alone.
       
       
                　　I am willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself.
       
       
                　　I am willing to be my biggest, bestest, most powerful self.
       
       
                　　These seven statements scare the absolute shit out of me. But I know that
they are at the crux of it all. At the end of the day, and when all is said and
done, I know that these are the ways that I want to have lived my life. I know
each one of you probably will have encountered one of these statements in the
last 48 hours, and if you have, thank you for being here. I appreciate it. It’s
truly an honor to be here with you all.
       
       
                　　Thank you.