今天推薦的演講者是：Clint Smith，發(fā)布于2014年的TED演講大會！

“最令人痛心的不是敵人的攻擊，而是朋友的沉默！”說唱詩人，教師Smith這樣說到。一段短小精悍，發(fā)自肺腑的TED演講，幫助我們找到了暢所欲言的勇氣，來對抗無知和不公！

The danger of silence

Clint SmithDr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in a 1968 speech where he reflects upon the Civil Rights Movement, states, "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends."

小馬丁·路德·金博士，在1968年的一次回顧民權(quán)運(yùn)動的演講中說到：”最終，我們會記住的不是敵人的話語，而是朋友的沉默。"

As a teacher, I've internalized this message. Every day, all around us, we see the consequences of silencemanifest themselves in the form of discrimination, violence, genocide and war.

作為一名教師，我在心中早已接納并消化了這種信息。每一天，在我們周圍，我們都會看到沉默產(chǎn)生的后果，以歧視、暴力、屠殺和戰(zhàn)爭的形式展現(xiàn)在我們面前。

In the classroom, I challenge my students to explore the silences in their own lives through poetry. We work together to fill those spaces,to recognize them, to name them, to understand that they don't have to be sources of shame. 在課堂里，我給學(xué)生們出了道難題，讓他們通過詩歌來探索自己生活中的沉默。我們一起填補(bǔ)空白之處，去欣賞它們、給它們起名字，并試著明白他們并不是羞恥的來源。

In an effort to create a culture within my classroom where students feel safe sharing the intimacies of their own silences, I have four core principles posted on the board that sits in the front of my class, which every student signs at the beginning of the year: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth.

為了在我的課堂上創(chuàng)造一種文化氛圍，讓學(xué)生們可以無所顧忌的分享他們從前從未提及的事，我在教室前面的黑板上寫下了四個核心原則，年初的時候每名學(xué)生都簽了名：批判性的閱讀，有意識的寫作，清晰的說話，說實(shí)話。

And I find myself thinking a lot about that last point, tell your truth. And I realized that if I was going to ask my students to speak up, I was going to have to tell my truth and be honest with them about the times where I failed to do so.

在最后一條上，我不由地思考了很多，說出實(shí)話。我意識到如果想讓學(xué)生們暢所欲言，我就得實(shí)話實(shí)說，坦誠地告訴他們我曾經(jīng)還無法做到這一點(diǎn)。

So I tell them that growing up, as a kid in a Catholic family in New Orleans, during Lent I was always taught?that the most meaningful thing one could do was to give something up, sacrifice something you typically indulge in to prove to God you understand his sanctity.

所以我告訴他們我在新奧爾良一個天主教家庭長大，在四旬齋期間，（譯注：基督教在復(fù)活節(jié)前為期40天的一個節(jié)期）大人們告訴我能做的最有意義的事就是放棄一些事情，犧牲你曾經(jīng)所沉迷的事物，向上帝證明你感悟到了他的圣潔。

I've given up soda, McDonald's, French fries, French kisses, and everything in between. But one year, I gave up speaking.I figured the most valuable thing I could sacrifice was my own voice, but it was like I hadn't realized that I had given that up a long time ago.

我放棄了汽水、麥當(dāng)勞、薯?xiàng)l、法式親吻還有這其中的各種東西。不過有一年，我放棄了說話。我發(fā)現(xiàn)我能夠犧牲的最有價值的東西就是我的聲音，但我還沒有意識到我已經(jīng)放棄說話有很長一段時間了。

I spent so much of my life telling people the things they wanted to hear instead of the things they needed to, told myself I wasn't meant to be anyone's conscience because I still had to figure out being my own, so sometimes I just wouldn't say anything, appeasing ignorance with my silence, unaware that validation doesn't need words to endorse its existence.

我花了太多時間告訴人們他們想要聽到的東西，而不是他們需要聽到的那些，我也告訴自己我不想成為任何人的道德標(biāo)桿，因?yàn)槲胰匀恍枰獙W(xué)著以身作則，所以有時候我一言不發(fā)，用沉默來安撫無知，卻并未意識到其實(shí)合理性并不需要言辭來證明其存在。

When Christian was beat up for being gay, I put my hands in my pocket and walked with my head down as if I didn't even notice. I couldn't use my locker for weeks because the bolt on the lock reminded me of the one I had put on my lips when the homeless man on the corner looked at me with eyes up merely searching for an affirmation that he was worth seeing.

當(dāng)一名基督徒因其為同性戀而遭到毆打時，我卻把雙手放在口袋里，低著頭走過去，裝作什么都沒看到。我有幾個星期沒法用我的柜子，因?yàn)殒i頭上的安全栓讓我想起了之前被我放在嘴唇上的那一枚，那時有個角落里的流浪漢正抬起頭看著我，僅僅想要尋找他值得人們注意的證據(jù)。

I was more concerned with touching the screen on my Apple than actually feeding him one. When the woman at the fundraising gala said "I'm so proud of you. It must be so hard teaching those poor, unintelligent kids," I bit my lip, because apparently we needed her money more than my students needed their dignity.

相比起給他食物，我更關(guān)心手機(jī)上有什么好玩的。當(dāng)募捐晚會上的女士說到“我真為你感到自豪。給那些貧窮的、智商低下的孩子上課一定很難?！?我依舊沒有開口，因?yàn)楹苊黠@，相比學(xué)生們的尊嚴(yán)，我們更需要她的錢。

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't. Silence is the residue of fear. It is feeling your flaws gut-wrench guillotine your tongue. It is the air retreating from your chest because it doesn't feel safe in your lungs. Silence is Rwandan genocide.

我們花費(fèi)了太多時間傾聽人們正在說的事，卻不會注意到他們沒說的那些。沉默是恐懼的殘留物。讓你無比痛苦的意識到自己的缺點(diǎn)卻無言以對。讓你感到胸口憋悶無法呼吸。沉默是盧旺達(dá)大屠殺。

Silence is Katrina. It is what you hear when there aren't enough body bags left. It is the sound after the noose is already tied. It is charring. It is chains. It is privilege. It is pain. There is no time to pick your battles when your battles have already picked you.

沉默是卡特里娜颶風(fēng)。是當(dāng)你聽到?jīng)]有足夠的裹尸袋。是當(dāng)繩索被套緊時的聲音。是碳化、是鎖鏈、是特權(quán)、是傷痛。已經(jīng)沒有時間決定是否要奮起反抗，此時沖突已來到了你的面前。

I will not let silence wrap itself around my indecision. I will tell Christian that he is a lion, a sanctuary of bravery and brilliance. I will ask that homeless man what his name is and how his day was, because sometimes all people want to be is human.

我不會允許沉默讓我變得優(yōu)柔寡斷。我會告訴基督徒，他是一頭獅子，是勇氣和智慧的庇護(hù)所。我會詢問流浪漢的名字，他過得怎么樣，因?yàn)橛袝r候大家只想做個真正的人。

I will tell that woman that my students can talk about?transcendentalism like their last name was Thoreau, and just because you watched one episode of "The Wire" doesn't mean you know anything about my kids.

我會告訴那位女士我的學(xué)生們會談?wù)撓闰?yàn)論，仿佛他們有著梭羅（Thoreau）家族血統(tǒng)，僅僅因?yàn)槟憧催^了一集《火線》，并不意味著你很了解我的孩子們。

So this year, instead of giving something up, I will live every day as if there were a microphone tucked under my tongue, a stage on the underside of my inhibition.Because who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice? Thank you.

那么今年，我并沒有放棄什么東西，而是把每天都過得好像有個麥克風(fēng)被植入進(jìn)了我的嘴里，而家里的地面就是講臺。當(dāng)你只需要大聲的表達(dá)你的觀點(diǎn)時，誰還會需要一個肥皂箱呢？謝謝大家。