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President Obama on a Historic Day in Egypt
Poziom:
Temat: Społeczeństwo i nauki społeczne
President Obama:
There are very few moments in
our lives where we have the
privilege to witness
history taking place.
This is one of those moments.
This is one of those times.
The people of Egypt have spoken,
their voices have been heard,
and Egypt will
never be the same.
By stepping down, President
Mubarak responded to the
Egyptian people's
hunger for change.
But this is not the end
of Egypt's transition.
It's a beginning.
I'm sure there will be
difficult days ahead,
and many questions
remain unanswered.
But I am confident that the
people of Egypt can find the
answers, and do so peacefully,
constructively and in the spirit
of unity that has defined
these last few weeks;
for Egyptians have made it clear
that nothing less than genuine
democracy will carry the day.
The military has served
patriotically and responsibly
as a caretaker to the state,
and will now have to ensure a
transition that is credible in
the eyes of the Egyptian people.
That means protecting the
rights of Egypt's citizens,
lifting the emergency law,
revising the constitution
and other laws to make
this change irreversible,
and laying out a clear
path to elections that
are fair and free.
Above all, this transition must
bring all of Egypt's voices to
the table, for the spirit
of peaceful protest and
perseverance that the Egyptian
people have shown can serve as a
powerful wind at the
back of this change.
The United States will
continue to be a friend
and partner to Egypt.
We stand ready to provide
whatever assistance is
necessary and asked for to
pursue a credible transition
to a democracy.
I'm also confident that the same
ingenuity and entrepreneurial
spirit that the young people of
Egypt have shown in recent days
can be harnessed to
create new opportunity,
jobs and businesses that allow
the extraordinary potential of
this generation to take flight.
And I know that a democratic
Egypt can advance its role of
responsible leadership
not only in the region
but around the world.
Egypt has played a pivotal
role in human history for
over 6,000 years.
But over the last few weeks,
the wheel of history turned
at a blinding pace as the
Egyptian people demanded
their universal rights.
We saw mothers and fathers
carrying their children on their
shoulders to show them what
true freedom might look like.
We saw a young Egyptian say:
For the first time in my life,
I really count.
My voice is heard.
Even though I'm only one
person, this is the way
real democracy works.
We saw protesters
chant "salmiya,
salmiya" -- we are peaceful
-- again and again.
We saw a military that would not
fire bullets at the people they
were sworn to protect.
And we saw doctors and nurses
rushing into the streets to care
for those who were wounded,
volunteers checking protesters
to ensure that
they were unarmed.
We saw people of faith praying
together and chanting, Muslims,
Christians, we are one.
And though we know that the
strains between faiths still
divide too many in this world,
and no single event will close
that chasm immediately, these
scenes remind us that we need
not be defined by
our differences;
we can be defined by the
common humanity that we share.
And above all, we saw a
new generation emerge,
a generation that uses their
own creativity and talent and
technology to call for a
government that represented
their hopes and not their fears,
a government that is responsive
to their boundless aspirations.
One Egyptian put it simply: Most
people have discovered in the
last few days that they
are worth something,
and this cannot be taken
away from them anymore, ever.
This is the power
of human dignity,
and it can never be denied.
Egyptians have inspired us, and
they've done so by putting the
lie to the idea that justice is
best gained through violence;
for in Egypt it was the moral
force of nonviolence -- not
terrorism, not mindless
killing, but nonviolence,
moral force -- that bent
the arc of history toward
justice once more.
And while the sights and sounds
that we heard were entirely
Egyptian, we can't help but
hear the echoes of history:
echoes from Germans
tearing down a wall,
Indonesian students
taking to the streets,
Gandhi leading his people
down the path of justice.
As Martin Luther King said in
celebrating the birth of a new
nation in Ghana, while
trying to perfect his own,
"There's something in the soul
that cries out for freedom."
Those were the cries that
came from Tahrir Square,
and the entire world
has taken note.
Today belongs to
the people of Egypt.
And the American people are
moved by these scenes in Cairo
and across Egypt because of who
we are as a people and the kind
of world that we want our
children to grow up in.
The word "tahrir"
means "liberation."
It is a word that speaks to
that something in our souls
that cries out for freedom.
And forevermore, it will remind
us of the Egyptian people: of
what they did, of the
things that they stood for,
and how they changed
their country,
and in doing so
changed the world.
Thank you.
