[00:00:00] 演讲:Martin Luther King
[00:00:01] 名称:I Have a Dream
[00:00:01] I am happy to join with you today
[00:00:06] In what will go down in history as
[00:00:12] The greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
[00:00:25] Five score years ago, a great American,
[00:00:32] In whose symbolic shadow we stand today,
[00:00:38] Signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
[00:00:42] This momentous decree came as a great
[00:00:48] Beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves
[00:00:53] Who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
[00:01:08] It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
[00:01:10] But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.
[00:01:19] One hundred years later,
[00:01:23] The life of the Negro is still sadly crippled
[00:01:28] By the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
[00:01:34] One hundred years later,
[00:01:38] The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of
[00:01:44] A vast ocean of material prosperity.
[00:01:48] One hundred years later,
[00:01:54] The Negro is still languished in the corners of American society
[00:02:00] And finds himself an exile in his own land.
[00:02:05] And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
[00:02:13] In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check.
[00:02:18] When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words
[00:02:25] Of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,
[00:02:30] They were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
[00:02:38] This note was a promise that all men, yes,
[00:02:45] Black men as well as white men,
[00:02:48] Would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life,
[00:02:51] Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
[00:02:57] It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note,
[00:03:04] Insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
[00:03:07] Instead of honoring this sacred obligation,
[00:03:14] America has given the Negro people a bad check,
[00:03:19] A check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
[00:03:35] But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
[00:03:43] We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds
[00:03:51] In the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so,
[00:03:54] We've come to cash this check,
[00:03:55] A check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom
[00:03:57] And the security of justice.
[00:04:10] We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of
[00:04:15] The fierce urgency of Now.
[00:04:20] This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off
[00:04:26] Or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
[00:04:36] Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.
[00:04:42] Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation
[00:04:49] To the sunlit path of racial justice.
[00:04:52] Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands
[00:05:03] Of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
[00:05:05] Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
[00:05:14] It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.
[00:05:20] This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent
[00:05:24] Will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
[00:05:33] Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.
[00:05:38] And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam
[00:05:44] And will now be content will have a rude awakening
[00:05:48] If the nation returns to business as usual.
[00:06:06] And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America
[00:06:10] Until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.
[00:06:15] The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations
[00:06:19] Of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
[00:06:25] But there is something that I must say to my people,
[00:06:29] Who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice:
[00:06:36] In the process of gaining our rightful place,
[00:06:41] We must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
[00:06:46] Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom
[00:06:50] By drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
[00:07:02] We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
[00:07:08] We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
[00:07:17] Again and again,
[00:07:18] We must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
[00:07:25] The marvelous new militancy
[00:07:28] Which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust
[00:07:33] Of all white people, for many of our white brothers,
[00:07:39] As evidenced by their presence here today,
[00:07:41] Have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.
[00:07:56] And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
[00:08:00] We cannot walk alone.
[00:08:01] And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
[00:08:12] We cannot turn back.
[00:08:15] There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights,
[00:08:19] "When will you be satisfied?"
[00:08:22] We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the
[00:08:26] Victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
[00:08:31] We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies,
[00:08:37] Heavy with the fatigue of travel,
[00:08:40] Cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways
[00:08:43] And the hotels of the cities.
[00:08:52] We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi
[00:08:56] Cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
[00:09:09] No, no, we are not satisfied,
[00:09:13] And we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters,
[00:09:18] And righteousness like a mighty stream."
[00:09:28] I am not unmindful that some of you have come here
[00:09:37] Out of great trials and tribulations.
[00:09:43] Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.
[00:09:47] And some of you have come from areas where your quest
[00:09:50] Quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution
[00:09:58] And staggered by the winds of police brutality.
[00:10:03] You have been the veterans of creative suffering.
[00:10:06] Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
[00:10:16] Go back to Mississippi,
[00:10:17] Go back to Alabama,
[00:10:19] Go back to South Carolina,
[00:10:21] Go back to Georgia,
[00:10:22] Go back to Louisiana,
[00:10:23] Go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities,
[00:10:29] Knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
[00:10:34] Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
[00:10:51] And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,
[00:10:58] I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
[00:11:07] I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up
[00:11:21] And live out the true meaning of its creed:
[00:11:22] "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
[00:11:35] I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia,
[00:11:42] The sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners
[00:11:48] Will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
[00:11:52] I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,
[00:11:59] A state sweltering with the heat of injustice,
[00:12:06] Sweltering with the heat of oppression,
[00:12:09] Will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
[00:12:14] I have a dream that my four little children will one day
[00:12:22] Live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
[00:12:26] But by the content of their character.
[00:12:29] I have a dream today!
[00:12:40] I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama,
[00:12:47] With its vicious racists,
[00:12:50] With its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition"
[00:12:55] And "nullification" one day right there in Alabama little black boys
[00:13:00] And black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys
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