Isi Pidato Rachel Corrie saat kelas 5 SD

I'm Here Because I Care

I’m here for other children...

I’m here because I care...



I’m here because children everywhere are suffering and because forty thousand people die each day from hunger...

I’m here because those people are mostly children...

We have got to understand that the poor are all around us and we are ignoring them...

We have got to understand that these deaths are preventable...

We have got to understand that people in third world countries think and care and smile and cry just like us...

We have got to understand that they dream our dreams and we dream theirs...

We have got to understand that they are us. We are them !

My dream is to stop hunger by the year 2000...
 
My dream is to give the poor a chance...

My dream is to save the 40,000 people who die each day...

My dream can and will come true if we all look into the future and see the light that shines there...

If we ignore hunger, that light will go out...

If we all help and work together, it will grow and burn free with the potential of tomorrow...
 
—Rachel Corrie, aged ten, recorded at her school’s Fifth Grade
Press Conference on World Hunger

Rachel Corrie adalah aktivis kemanusiaan berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat, anggota dari Gerakan Solidaritas Internasional / International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Dia meninggal tahun 2003 karena dilindas buldozer israel setelah mencoba melindungi satu keluarga Palestina dari penggusuran di Gaza. Namanya kemudian diabadikan pada sebuah kapal pengusung misi kemanusiaan yang mencoba menerjang blokade israel setelah sebelumnya kapal dengan misi yang sama, Mavi Marmara, diserang oleh tentara Israel yang mengakibatkan sejumlah relawan dari berbagai negara tewas.