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当地时间周三早些时候，美国副总统哈里斯打电话给特朗普，祝贺他赢得2024年总统选举，并正式承认竞选结果。以下是哈里斯败选后在她的母校霍华德大学发表演讲的完整文字记录：
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech for the 2024 presidential election on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. on November 6, 2024. (BEN CURTIS/AP)
下午好。大家下午好，下午好。谢谢大家。谢谢你，谢谢你，谢谢你。所以让我说，我爱你，我爱你。所以，让我说我今天心里很充实。今天，我的心里充满了感激之情，充满了对你们对我的信任，充满了对我们国家的热爱和决心。这次选举的结果不是我们想要的，不是我们为之奋斗的，不是我们投票所支持的，但请听我说，只要我们永不放弃，只要我们继续战斗，美国承诺的光芒将永远闪耀。
对于我心爱的 Doug 和我们的家人，我非常爱你们。对于拜登总统和拜登博士，感谢你们的信任和支持。对于沃尔茨州长和沃尔茨家族，我知道您将继续为我们国家服务。感谢我非凡的团队，感谢付出如此多的志愿者，感谢投票站工作人员和当地选举官员。我感谢大家。
你看，我为我们参加的比赛和我们竞选的方式感到非常自豪——以及我们竞选的方式。在这项运动的 107 天里，我们一直有意识地建立社区和联盟，将来自各行各业和背景的人们聚集在一起，他们因对国家的热爱而团结在一起，在为美国的未来而战中充满热情和喜悦。
我们这样做是因为我们知道，我们所有人的共同点都比现在的差异要多得多。我知道人们现在正在感受和经历一系列的情绪。我明白，但我们必须接受这次选举的结果。今天早些时候，我与当选总统特朗普进行了交谈，并祝贺他的胜利。我还告诉他，我们将帮助他和他的团队进行过渡，我们将进行权力的和平转移。
美国民主的一个基本原则是，当我们输掉选举时，我们接受结果。这一原则与其他任何原则一样，将民主与君主制或暴政区分开来，任何寻求公众信任的人都必须尊重它。与此同时，在我们国家，我们不对总统或政党效忠，而是美国宪法效忠，以及对我们的良心和我们的上帝效忠。我对这三者的忠诚是我在这里说，虽然我承认这次选举，但我不承认为这场竞选提供动力的斗争，为自由、机会、公平和所有人的尊严而战，为我们国家的核心理想而战，为反映我们美国最好的理想而战。这是我永远不会放弃的战斗。
我永远不会放弃为美国人能够追求自己的梦想、抱负和抱负的未来而奋斗，在那里，美国妇女可以自由地对自己的身体做出决定，而不需要政府告诉她们该怎么做。我们永远不会放弃保护我们的学校和街道免受枪支暴力的斗争
，我们永远不会放弃为我们的民主、法治、平等正义和神圣理念而战，即我们每个人，无论我们是谁，无论我们从哪里开始，都拥有必须得到尊重和维护的某些基本权利和自由。
我们将继续在投票站、法院和公共广场进行这场斗争，我们也将以更安静的方式进行这场斗争，以我们的生活方式进行，以善意和尊重的态度对待彼此，看着陌生人的脸，看到邻居，始终利用我们的力量鼓舞人们，为所有人应得的尊严而战。为我们的自由而战需要付出艰苦的努力。但就像我经常说的，我们喜欢努力工作，努力工作就是好工作。辛勤工作可以是快乐的工作。为我们的国家而战总是值得的。这总是值得的。
对于正在观看的年轻人来说，感到悲伤和失望是可以的，但请知道一切都会好起来的。在竞选活动中，我经常说，当我们战斗时，我们就会赢。但事情是这样的，事情是这样的，有时战斗需要一段时间。这并不意味着我们不会赢。这并不意味着我们不会赢。重要的是，永远不要放弃。永远不要放弃。永远不要停止努力让世界变得更美好。您有力量。你有力量，当有人告诉你某件事是不可能的，因为以前从未做过，你从来不听。
您有能力在世界上做非凡的善事。因此，对于所有正在观看的人，不要绝望。现在不是我们放弃的时候。现在是我们卷起袖子的时候了。
为了自由和正义以及我们都知道可以共同建设的未来，这是一个组织、动员和保持参与的时刻。听着，你们中的许多人都知道，我最初是一名检察官，在我的整个职业生涯中，我看到人们在他们生命中最糟糕的时刻，他们遭受了巨大的伤害和痛苦，但却在自己内心找到了力量、勇气和决心，表明了立场。为正义而战，为自己而战，为他人而战。所以，让他们的勇气成为我们的灵感来源。让他们的决心成为我们的责任。
我以此结束，有一句谚语和历史学家曾经被称为历史法则，适用于各个时代的每个社会，这句谚语是，只有当天足够暗时，你才能看到星星。我知道很多人觉得我们正在进入一个黑暗的时代，但为了我们所有人的利益，我希望情况并非如此。但问题是，美国，如果是这样的话，让我们用十亿颗璀璨星星的光芒充满天空，乐观、信仰、真理和服务的光芒。H-U [来自霍华德大学的座右铭 Veritas et Utilitas，翻译过来就是“真理与服务”，人群对此的回应是：“你知道的”，这是学校的呼唤和回应）。
愿这项工作指导我们，即使面对实现美利坚合众国非凡承诺的挫折，我感谢你们所有人。愿上帝保佑您，愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。我感谢大家。
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Vice President Kamala Harris has conceded the 2024 presidential election in a speech at Howard University, her alma mater. The following is a full transcript of Harris’ speech:
Good afternoon. Good afternoon everyone, good afternoon. Thank you all. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. So let me say, and I love you back, and I love you back. So let me say my heart is full today. My heart is full today, full of gratitude for the trust you have placed in me, full of love for our country and full of resolve. The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for, not what we voted for, but hear me when I say the light of America’s promise will always burn bright, as long as we never give up and as long as we keep fighting.
To my beloved Doug and our family, I love you so very much. To President Biden and Dr. Biden, thank you for your faith and support. To Governor Walz and the Walz family, I know your service to our nation will continue. And to my extraordinary team, to the volunteers who gave so much of themselves, to the poll workers and the local election officials, I thank you. I thank you all.
Look, I am so proud of the race we ran and the way we ran it — and the way we ran it. Over the 107 days of this campaign, we have been intentional about building community and building coalitions, bringing people together from every walk of life and background, united by love of country, with enthusiasm and joy in our fight for America’s future.
And we did it with the knowledge that we all have so much more in common than what separates us now. I know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now. I get it, but we must accept the results of this election. Earlier today, I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.
A fundamental principle of American democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the results. That principle as much as any other distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny, and anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it. At the same time in our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States, and loyalty to our conscience and to our God. My allegiance to all three is why I am here to say, while I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fuels this campaign, the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness and the dignity of all people, a fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up.
I will never give up the fight for a future where Americans can pursue their dreams, ambitions and aspirations, where the women of America have the freedom to make decisions about their own body and not have their government telling them what to do. We will never give up the fight to protect our schools and our streets from gun violence
and America, we will never give up the fight for our democracy, for the rule of law, for equal justice, and for the sacred idea that every one of us, no matter who we are or where we start out, has certain fundamental rights and freedoms that must be respected and upheld.
And we will continue to wage this fight in the voting booth, in the courts and in the public square, and we will also wage it in quieter ways, in how we live our lives, by treating one another with kindness and respect, by looking in the face of a stranger and seeing a neighbor, by always using our strength to lift people up to fight for the dignity that all people deserve. The fight for our freedom will take hard work. But like I always say, we like hard work, hard work is good work. Hard work can be joyful work. And the fight for our country is always worth it. It is always worth it.
To the young people who are watching, it is okay to feel sad and disappointed, but please know it’s going to be okay. On the campaign, I would often say, when we fight, we win. But here’s the thing, here’s the thing, sometimes the fight takes a while. That doesn’t mean we won’t win. That doesn’t mean we won’t win. The important thing is, don’t ever give up. Don’t ever give up. Don’t ever stop trying to make the world a better place. You have power. You have power, and don’t you ever listen when anyone tells you something is impossible because it has never been done before.
You have the capacity to do extraordinary good in the world. And so to everyone who is watching, do not despair. This is not a time to throw up our hands. This is a time to roll up our sleeves.
This is a time to organize, to mobilize and to stay engaged for the sake of freedom and justice and the future that we all know we can build together. Look, many of you know, I started out as a prosecutor, and throughout my career, I saw people at some of the worst times in their lives, people who had suffered great harm and great pain and yet found within themselves, the strength and the courage and the resolve to take the stand, to take a stand, to fight for justice, to fight for themselves, to fight for others. So let their courage be our inspiration. Let their determination be our charge.
And I’ll close with this, there’s an adage and historian once called a law of history, true of every society across the ages, the adage is, only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time, but for the benefit of us all,I hope that is not the case. But here’s the thing, America, if it is, let us fill the sky with the light of a billion brilliant stars, the light of optimism, of faith, of truth and service. H-U [from Howard University’s motto Veritas et Utilitas, which translates to “Truth and Service,” and to which the crowd responded: “You know,” the school’s call and response).
And may that work guide us, even in the face of setbacks toward the extraordinary promise of the United States of America, I thank you all. May God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America. I thank you all.
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