今天的事情，20年后人们可以坦然接受，但是现在却只有刘翔做得出。我不想说刘翔是不是英雄，因为这个话题根本就驴唇不对马嘴，刘翔今天的行为只能说是太超前了，国人现在是无法理解的
刘翔今天实际根本不可能完成比赛，我认为队医和教练实际也清楚这一点，但是田径队领导不敢承担这个责任，抱着宁死也要试一试的态度，让刘翔出场。这个在新闻发布会上很清楚了
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孙海平在新闻发布会上说：“我们现场有三个大夫在准备活动场地，在帮刘翔做伤的处理，最后实在没有办法了，前面用冷冻，用喷雾喷了，都没用，他都撑不起来。他伤的地方正好在跟骨，是最受力的地方，脚一撑，受力就在这个地方，一撑就软下来，但他始终在顶。最后在进检录处之前，实在没有办法了，就用了最后一个办法，就请了我们一个体育医院的副院长，他是专门搞按摩的，就在他局部最强烈的刺激进行治疗。”
　　冯树勇在发布会上说：“我们用了我们所有可能做到的，医生用最强烈的刺激，当时刘翔已经浑身在抖，疼得非常厉害。”
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大家看到了，情况已经很不妙，此时教练和队医负责的做法就是不再让刘翔出场，要注意，这个时候，运动员本身的意见是次要的，教练和队医的意见要占第一位。但是他们不敢承担这个责任，田径队领导也不敢承担这个责任。而我认为，刘翔本人的意愿还是想尝试一下的，而且当时周围这么多人，他自己个人提出退赛恐怕也是很为难的
刘翔出场之后，从他的表情可以看出，非常沉重，应该说心里是没有把握完成这一枪的。枪响之后，刘翔起跑之后马上就不行了，这个可以看得很清楚。这时，有两个选择，一是继续比赛，二是退赛。如果选择继续比赛，只能是悲壮的一路用手推栏，走到终点，很多人觉得这样才是体现奥林匹克精神，可是想没想到，对于刘翔这样一个光芒四射的明星，这几乎相当于侮辱。如果刘翔是无名之辈也就罢了，可是他不是，他可以决赛输给罗伯斯，但是他能够这样输给预赛组中他平时闭着眼都能赢的这些无名之辈吗？大家可以想一想，如果一个美女脸上有了一个小疤痕，都不愿意给别人看，刘翔这样顺风顺水、心高气傲的田径巨星要这样在全世界面前一瘸一拐、涕泪横流的推倒栏杆，走到终点？？？这就是奥林匹克精神了？？？
这时退不退赛，只能刘翔一个人来做决定，我想，刘翔肯定也想过一个人走到终点完成比赛的方式，也想过所谓的奥林匹克精神，但是他没有为这些所累，他还是很倔强、很高傲的离开了。这一刻，他选择了自己的自由意志，他勇敢的拒绝了所谓“奥林匹克精神”的套套。
大多数人，是不是能够选择自己的自由意志，是不是尊重别人的自由意志，是不是可以勇敢的拒绝陈规旧俗，是一个社会成熟的标志，而这，是目前中国所不具备的。刘翔本来就是一个很有个性的人，而他又来自上海，今天做出这个决定我认为是自然而然的，但中国这个目前个性化程度较低、自我意识比较落后的社会，大多数人不能理解这个决定也是很正常的
奥林匹克精神，也是与时俱进的，也是要发展的，也必须遵从人的自由意志。如果硬要用一个套套来压制人，窃以为才是奥林匹克的耻辱。想想原来君权是何等崇高，为皇帝而死，就是最高的道德，现在又是多么可笑。所以我们也不要把“奥林匹克”、“必须完成比赛”等等作为运动员的最高道德标准，人总是第一宝贵的。我受伤了，不能正常完成比赛，我退赛，不也很正常吗？
希望大家抱着一颗宽容之心来看待这个事情。而且我相信20年后，人们对比赛的理解绝对会上一个很大的台阶，我们无需再因金牌多多而挺直腰杆，无需刘翔们才能有具备对种族的信心，一切都轻轻松松，把中国的体育变为迷人的运动和产业，这不是很好么

 

when in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refuted his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred. to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. --And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

--John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

独立宣言

（1776年7月）

    在有关人类事务的发展过程中，当一个民族必须解除其和另一个民族的政治关系，并在世界各国之间依照自然法则和上帝的意旨，接受独立的地位时，出于对人类舆论的尊重，必须把他们不得不独立的原因予以宣布。

我们认为下述真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等，造物主赋予他们若干不可剥夺的权利，其中包括生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利，为了保障这些权利，人类才在他们之间建立政府，而政府之正当权利，是经过被治理者的同意而产生的。当任何形式的政府对这些目标具破坏性时，人民便有权利改变或废除它，以建立一个新的政府；其赖以奠基的原则，其组织权利的方式，务使人民认为惟有这样才最可能获得他们的安全和幸福。为了慎重起见，成立多年的政府，是不应当由于轻微或短暂的原因而予以变更的。过去的一切经验也都说明，任何苦难，只要是尚能忍受，人类都宁愿容忍，而无意为了本身的权益便废除他们久以习惯了的政府。但是，当追逐同一个目标的一连串滥用职权和强取豪夺发生，证明政府企图把人民置于专制之下时，那么，人民就有权利，也有义务推翻这个政府，并为他们未来的安全建立新的保障-------这就是这些殖民地过去逆来顺受的原因。当今大不列颠的历史，是接连不断的伤天害理和强取豪夺的历史。这一暴行的惟一目的，就是想在这些州建立专制的暴政。为了证明所言属实，现把下列事实向公正的世界宣布。

他拒绝批准对公众利益最有利、最必要的法律。

他禁止他的总督们批准迫切而极为必要的法律，要不就把这些法律搁置起来暂不生效，等待他的统一；而一旦这些法律被搁置起来，他对它们就完全置之不理。

他拒绝批准便利广大地区人民的其他法律，除非那些人民情愿放弃自己在立法机关中的代表权；但这种权力对他们有无法估量的价值，而且只有暴君才畏惧这种权力。

他把各州立法团体召集到异乎寻常的极为不便的远离它们档案库的地方去开会，惟一目的是使他们疲于奔命，不得不顺从他的意旨。

他一再解散各州的议会，因为他们以无畏的坚毅态度反对他侵犯人民的权利。

他在解散各州议会之后，又长期拒绝另选新议会；但立法权是无法取消的，因此这项权力仍由人民来行使。其时各州仍然处于危险的境地，既有外来侵略之患，又有发生内乱之忧。

他竭力抑制各州的人口；为此目的，他阻挠外国人入籍法的通过，拒绝批准其他鼓励外国人移居各州的法律，并提高分配新土地的条件。

他拒绝建立司法权力的法律，借以阻挠司法工作的推行。

他把法官的任期、薪水数额和支付，完全置于他个人意志的支配之下。

他滥设新官署，派遣大批官员，骚扰我们人民，并耗尽人民必要的生活资料。

他在和平时期，未经我们的立法机关的同意，就在我们中间维持常备军。

他力图使军队独立于民政之外，并凌驾民政之上。

他同某些人勾结起来，把我们置于一种不适合我们的体制、且不为我们的法律所承认的管辖之下；他还批准那些人炮制的各种法案来达到以下目的：

在我们中间驻扎大批部队；

用假审讯来包庇他们，使他们杀害我们各州居民而仍然逍遥法外；

切断我们同世界各地的贸易；

未经我们同意便向我们强行征税；

在许多案件中剥夺我们享有陪审制的权益；

罗织罪名押送我们到海外去受审；

在一个邻省废除英国的自由法律，在那里建立专制政府，并扩大该省的疆界，企图把该省变成一个既是一个样板、又是一个得心应手的工具，以便向各殖民地推行同样的集权统治；

取消我们的宪章，废除我们最宝贵的法律，并从根本上改变我们各州政府的形式；

中止我们自己的立法机关行使权力，宣称他们自己有权就一切事宜为我们制定法律。

他宣布我们己不属于他保护这列，并对我们作战，从而放弃了在这里的政府。

他在我们海域大肆掠夺，蹂躏我们沿海地区，焚烧我们的城镇，残害我们人民的生命。

他此时正运送大批外国雇佣兵来完成屠杀、破坏和肆虐的勾当，这种勾当早就开始，其残酷卑劣甚至在最野蛮的时代都难以找到先例。他完全不配做一个文明国家的元首。

他在公海上俘虏我们的同胞，强迫他们拿起武器来反对自己的国家，成为残杀自己亲人和朋友的刽子手，或是死于自己的亲人和朋友手下。

他在我们中间煽动内乱，并且竭力挑唆那些残酷无情、没有开化的印第安人来杀我们边疆的居民；印第安人的作战规律是不分男女老幼，一律格杀勿论的。

在这些压迫的每一阶段中，我们都是用最卑谦的言辞请求纠正；但崇山峻岭屡次请求所答复是屡次遭受损害。一个君主，当他的品格打上暴君的烙印时，是不配做自由人民的统治者的。

我们不是没有顾及我们英国的弟兄。我们时常提醒他们，他们的立法机关企图把无理的管辖权横加到我们的头上。我们也曾把我们移民来这里定居的情形告诉他们。我们曾经向他们天生的正义感和雅量呼吁，我们恳求他们念在同宗同种的份上，弃绝这些掠夺行为，以免影响彼此的关系和往来。但是他们对这种正义和血缘的呼声，也同样充耳不闻。因此，我们不得不宣布和他们脱离，并且以对待世界上其他民族一样和态度对待他们：和我们作战，就是敌人；我们和好，就是朋友。

    因此，我们，在大陆会议上集会美利坚合众国代表，以各殖民地善良人民的名义，并经他们授权，向全世界最崇高的正义呼吁，说明我们的严正意向，同时郑重宣布：这些联合一致的殖民地从此是自由和独立的国家，并且按其权力也必须是自由和独立的国家；它们取消一切对英国王室效忠的义务，它们和大不列颠国家的一切政治关系从此全部断绝，而且必须断绝；作为自由独立的国家，它们完全有权宣战、结盟、通商和独立国家有权采取的一切行动。

为了支持这篇宣言，我们坚决信赖上帝的庇佑，以我们的生命、我们的财产和我们神圣的名誉，彼此宣誓。