[视频]马丁·路德·金：我有一个梦想（中英字幕 中英文本）

[视频]马丁·路德·金：我有一个梦想（中英字幕+中英文本）

2016-10-30 11:38阅读：

《I have a dream!》

by Martin Luther King, Jr.

【Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.on August 28, 1963. Source: Martin Luther King, Jr: The PeacefulWarrior, Pocket Books, NY 1968】

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in historyas the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of ournation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow westand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentousdecree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negroslaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. Itcame as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of theircaptivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. Onehundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippledby the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island ofpoverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is stilllanguished in the corners of American society and finds himself anexile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize ashameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. Whenthe architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of theConstitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signinga promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. Thisnote was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as whitemen, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable Rights' of 'Life, Libertyand the pursuit of Happiness.' It is obvious today that America hasdefaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of colorare concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, Americahas given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come backmarked 'insufficient funds.'

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. Werefuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the greatvaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cashthis check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches offreedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of thefierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury ofcooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now isthe time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time torise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlitpath of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from thequicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God'schildren.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of themoment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontentwill not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom andequality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Andthose who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will nowbe content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns tobusiness as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquilityin America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. Thewhirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of ournation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand onthe warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In theprocess of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty ofwrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedomby drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must foreverconduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physicalviolence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights ofmeeting physical force with soul force.

must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.。the negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with。the marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the negro community。

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always marchahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'Whenwill you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as theNegro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with thefatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of thehighways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied aslong as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New Yorkbelieves he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are notsatisfied, and we will not be satisfied until 'justice rolls downlike waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'