《I Have A Dream》歌词

歌曲： I Have A Dream

所属专辑：Into Yethu

歌手： Durban Poizn

时长： 05:37

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演讲:Martin Luther King[00:00:00]

名称:I Have a Dream[00:00:01]

I am happy to join with you today[00:00:01]

In what will go down in history as[00:00:06]

The greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.[00:00:12]

Five score years ago, a great American,[00:00:25]

In whose symbolic shadow we stand today,[00:00:32]

Signed the Emancipation Proclamation.[00:00:38]

This momentous decree came as a great[00:00:42]

Beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves[00:00:48]

Who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.[00:00:53]

It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.[00:01:08]

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.[00:01:10]

One hundred years later,[00:01:19]

The life of the Negro is still sadly crippled[00:01:23]

By the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.[00:01:28]

One hundred years later,[00:01:34]

The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of[00:01:38]

A vast ocean of material prosperity.[00:01:44]

One hundred years later,[00:01:48]

The Negro is still languished in the corners of American society[00:01:54]

And finds himself an exile in his own land.[00:02:00]

And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.[00:02:05]

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check.[00:02:13]

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words[00:02:18]

Of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,[00:02:25]

They were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.[00:02:30]

This note was a promise that all men, yes,[00:02:38]

Black men as well as white men,[00:02:45]

Would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life,[00:02:48]

Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."[00:02:51]

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note,[00:02:57]

Insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.[00:03:04]

Instead of honoring this sacred obligation,[00:03:07]

America has given the Negro people a bad check,[00:03:14]

A check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."[00:03:19]

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.[00:03:35]

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds[00:03:43]

In the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so,[00:03:51]

We've come to cash this check,[00:03:54]

A check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom[00:03:55]

And the security of justice.[00:03:57]

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of[00:04:10]

The fierce urgency of Now.[00:04:15]

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off[00:04:20]

Or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.[00:04:26]

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.[00:04:36]

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation[00:04:42]

To the sunlit path of racial justice.[00:04:49]

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands[00:04:52]

Of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.[00:05:03]

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.[00:05:05]

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.[00:05:14]

This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent[00:05:20]

Will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.[00:05:24]

Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.[00:05:33]

And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam[00:05:38]

And will now be content will have a rude awakening[00:05:44]

If the nation returns to business as usual.[00:05:48]

And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America[00:06:06]

Until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.[00:06:10]

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations[00:06:15]

Of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.[00:06:19]

But there is something that I must say to my people,[00:06:25]

Who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice:[00:06:29]

In the process of gaining our rightful place,[00:06:36]

We must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.[00:06:41]

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom[00:06:46]

By drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.[00:06:50]

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.[00:07:02]

We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.[00:07:08]

Again and again,[00:07:17]

We must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.[00:07:18]

The marvelous new militancy[00:07:25]

Which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust[00:07:28]

Of all white people, for many of our white brothers,[00:07:33]

As evidenced by their presence here today,[00:07:39]

Have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.[00:07:41]

And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.[00:07:56]

We cannot walk alone.[00:08:00]

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.[00:08:01]

We cannot turn back.[00:08:12]

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights,[00:08:15]

"When will you be satisfied?"[00:08:19]

We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the[00:08:22]

Victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.[00:08:26]

We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies,[00:08:31]

Heavy with the fatigue of travel,[00:08:37]

Cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways[00:08:40]

And the hotels of the cities.[00:08:43]

We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi[00:08:52]

Cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.[00:08:56]

No, no, we are not satisfied,[00:09:09]

And we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters,[00:09:13]

And righteousness like a mighty stream."[00:09:18]

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here[00:09:28]

Out of great trials and tribulations.[00:09:37]

Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.[00:09:43]

And some of you have come from areas where your quest [00:09:47]

Quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution[00:09:50]

And staggered by the winds of police brutality.[00:09:58]

You have been the veterans of creative suffering.[00:10:03]

Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.[00:10:06]

Go back to Mississippi,[00:10:16]

Go back to Alabama,[00:10:17]

Go back to South Carolina,[00:10:19]

Go back to Georgia,[00:10:21]

Go back to Louisiana,[00:10:22]

Go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities,[00:10:23]

Knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.[00:10:29]

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.[00:10:34]

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,[00:10:51]

I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.[00:10:58]

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up[00:11:07]

And live out the true meaning of its creed:[00:11:21]

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."[00:11:22]

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia,[00:11:35]

The sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners[00:11:42]

Will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.[00:11:48]

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,[00:11:52]

A state sweltering with the heat of injustice,[00:11:59]

Sweltering with the heat of oppression,[00:12:06]

Will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.[00:12:09]

I have a dream that my four little children will one day[00:12:14]

Live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin[00:12:22]

But by the content of their character.[00:12:26]

I have a dream today![00:12:29]

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama,[00:12:40]

With its vicious racists,[00:12:47]

With its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition"[00:12:50]

And "nullification" one day right there in Alabama little black boys[00:12:55]

And black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys[00:13:00]

And white girls as sisters and brothers.[00:13:04]

I have a dream today![00:13:07]

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,[00:13:16]

And every hill and mountain shall be made low,[00:13:20]

The rough places will be made plain,[00:13:23]

And the crooked places will be made straight;[00:13:25]

"and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."?[00:13:28]

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.[00:13:33]

With this faith,[00:13:39]

We will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.[00:13:41]

With this faith,[00:13:47]

We will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a[00:13:48]

Beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith,[00:13:53]

We will be able to work together,[00:13:58]

To pray together,[00:14:00]

To struggle together,[00:14:00]

To go to jail together,[00:14:02]

To stand up for freedom together,[00:14:04]

Knowing that we will be free one day.[00:14:06]

And this will be the day[00:14:11]

This will be the day when all of God's children[00:14:14]

Will be able to sing with new meaning:[00:14:18]

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.[00:14:21]

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,[00:14:27]

From every mountainside, let freedom ring![00:14:31]

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.[00:14:35]

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.[00:14:40]

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.[00:14:46]

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.[00:14:50]

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.[00:14:55]

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.[00:15:00]

But not only that:[00:15:05]

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.[00:15:06]

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.[00:15:11]

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.[00:15:15]

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.[00:15:21]

And when this happens,[00:15:25]

When we allow freedom ring,[00:15:30]

When we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,[00:15:33]

From every state and every city,[00:15:36]

We will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children,[00:15:41]

Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,[00:15:45]

Will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:[00:15:50]

Free at last![00:15:57]

Free at last![00:15:58]

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last![00:15:59]

(the end)[00:16:01]