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演讲全文：I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we"ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we"ve come to our nation"s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we"ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God"s children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro"s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a 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 they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."?
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God"s children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country "tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim"s pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of
Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God"s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
演讲中文翻译：
"今天，我高兴地同大家一起，参加这次将成为我国历史上为了争取自由而举行的最伟大的示威集会。
一百年前，一位伟大的美国人签署了解放黑奴宣言，今天我们就是在他的雕像前集会。这一庄严宣言犹如灯塔的光芒，给千百万在那摧残生命的不义之火中受煎熬的黑奴带来了希望。它之到来犹如欢乐的黎明，结束了束缚黑人的漫漫长夜。
然而一百年后的今天，我们必须正视黑人还没有得到自由这一悲惨的事实。一百年后的今天，在种族隔离的镣铐和种族歧视的枷锁下，黑人的生活备受压榨。一百年后的今天，黑人仍生活在物质充裕的海洋中一个穷困的孤岛上。一百年后的今天，黑人仍然萎缩在美国社会的角落里，并且意识到自己是故土家园中的流亡者。今天我们在这里集会，就是要把这种骇人听闻的情况公诸于众。
就某种意义而言，今天我们是为了要求兑现诺言而汇集到我们国家的首都来的。我们共和国的缔造者草拟宪法和独立宣言的气壮山河的词句时，曾向每一个美国人许下了诺言。他们承诺给予所有的人以生存、自由和追求幸福的不可剥夺的权利。
就有色公民而论，美国显然没有实践她的诺言。美国没有履行这项神圣的义务，只是给黑人开了一张空头支票，支票上盖着「资金不足」的戳子后便退了回来。但是我们不相信正义的银行已经破产。我们不相信，在这个国家巨大的机会之库里已没有足够的储备。因此今天我们要求将支票兑现——这张支票将给予我们宝贵的自由和正义的保障。
我们来到这个圣地也是为了提醒美国，现在是非常急迫的时刻。现在决非侈谈冷静下来或服用渐进主义的镇静剂的时候。现在是实现民主的诺言的时候。现在是从种族隔离的荒凉阴暗的深谷攀登种族平等的光明大道的时候。现在是向上帝所有的儿女开放机会之门的时候。现在是把我们的国家从种族不平等的流沙中拯救出来，置于兄弟情谊的盘石上的时候。
如果美国忽视时间的迫切性和低估黑人的决心，那么，这对美国来说，将是致命伤。自由和平等的爽朗秋天如不到来，黑人义愤填膺的酷暑就不会过去。一九六三年并不意味着斗争的结束，而是开始。有人希望，黑人只要消消气就会满足；如果国家安之若素，毫无反应，这些人必会大失所望的。黑人得不到公民的权利，美国就不可能有安宁或平静。正义的光明的一天不到来，叛乱的旋风就将继续动摇这个国家的基础。
但是对于等候在正义之宫门口的心急如焚的人们，有些话我是必须说的。在争取合法地位的过程中，我们不要采取错误的做法。我们不要为了满足对自由的渴望而抱着敌对和仇恨之杯痛饮。我们斗争时必须求远举止得体，纪律严明。我们不能容许我们的具有崭新内容的抗议蜕变为暴力行动。我们要不断地升华到以精神力量对付物质力量的崇高境界中去。
现在黑人社会充满着了不起的新的战斗精神，但是我们却不能因此而不信任所有的白人。因为我们的许多白人兄弟已经认识到，他们的命运与我们的命运是紧密相连的，他们今天参加游行集会就是明证。他们的自由与我们的自由是息息相关的。我们不能单独行动。
当我们行动时，我们必须保证向前进。我们不能倒退。现在有人问热心民权运动的人，「你们什么时候才能满足？」
只要黑人仍然遭受警察难以形容的野蛮迫害，我们就绝不会满足。
只要我们在外奔波而疲乏的身躯不能在公路旁的汽车旅馆和城里的旅馆找到住宿之所，我们就绝不会满足。
只要黑人的基本活动范围只是从少数民族聚居的小贫民区转移到大贫民区，我们就绝不会满足。
只要密西西比仍然有一个黑人不能参加选举，只要纽约有一个黑人认为他投票无济于事，我们就绝不会满足。
不！我们现在并不满足，我们将来也不满足，除非正义和公正犹如江海之波涛，汹涌澎湃，滚滚而来。
我并非没有注意到，参加今天集会的人中，有些受尽苦难和折磨；有些刚刚走出窄小的牢房；有些由于寻求自由，曾在居住地惨遭疯狂迫害的打击，并在警察暴行的旋风中摇摇欲坠。你们是人为痛苦的长期受难者。坚持下去吧，要坚决相信，忍受不应得的痛苦是一种赎罪。
让我们回到密西西比去，回到阿拉巴马去，回到南卡罗来纳去，回到乔治亚去，回到路易斯安那去，回到我们北方城市中的贫民区和少数民族居住区去，要心中有数，这种状况是能够也必将改变的。我们不要陷入绝望而不克自拔。
朋友们，今天我对你们说，在此时此刻，我们虽然遭受种种困难和挫折，我仍然有一个梦想。这个梦想是深深扎根于美国的梦想中的。
我梦想有一天，这个国家会站立起来，真正实现其信条的真谛：「我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等。」
我梦想有一天，在乔治亚的红山上，昔日奴隶的儿子将能够和昔日奴隶主的儿子坐在一起，共叙兄弟情谊。
我梦想有一天，甚至连密西西比州这个正义匿迹，压迫成风，如同沙漠般的地方，也将变成自由和正义的绿洲。
我梦想有一天，我的四个孩子将在一个不是以他们的肤色，而是以他们的品格来评价他们的国度里生活。
我今天有一个梦想。
我梦想有一天，亚拉巴马州能够有所转变，尽管该州州长现在仍然满口异议，反对联邦法令，但有朝一日，那里的黑人男孩和女孩将能与白人男孩和女孩情同骨肉，携手并进。
我今天有一个梦想。
我梦想有一天，幽谷上升，高山下降，坎坷曲折之路成坦途，圣光披露，满照人间。
这就是我们的希望。我怀着这种信念回到南方。有了这个信念，我们将能从绝望之嶙劈出一块希望之石。有了这个信念，我们将能把这个国家刺耳争吵的声，改变成为一支洋溢手足之情的优美交响曲。
有了这个信念，我们将能一起工作，一起祈祷，一起斗争，一起坐牢，一起维护自由；因为我们知道，终有一天，我们是会自由的。
在自由到来的那一天，上帝的所有儿女们将以新的含义高唱这支歌：「我的祖国，美丽的自由之乡，我为您歌唱。您是父辈逝去的地方，您是最初移民的骄傲，让自由之声响彻每个山岗。」
如果美国要成为一个伟大的国家，这个梦想必须实现。让自由之声从新罕布什尔州的巍峨峰巅响起来！让自由之声从纽约州的崇山峻岭响起来？让自由之声从宾夕法尼亚州阿勒格尼山的顶峰响起来！
让自由之声从科罗拉多州冰雪覆盖的洛基山响起来！让自由之声从加利福尼亚州蜿蜒的群峰响起来？不仅如此，还要让自由之声从乔治亚州的石嶙响起来？让自由之声从田纳西州的了望山响起来！
让自由之声从密西西比的每一座丘陵响起来？让自由之声从每一片山坡响起来。
当我们让自由之声响起来，让自由之声从每一个大小村庄、每一个州和每一个城市响起来时，我们将能够加速这一天的到来，那时，上帝的所有儿女，黑人和白人，犹太教徒和非犹太教徒，耶稣教徒和天主教徒，都将手携手，合唱一首古老的黑人灵歌：「终于自由啦！终于自由啦！感谢全能的上帝，我们终于自由啦！
贝贝-
I am happy to join with you today
今天，我高兴地同大家一起，
in what will go down in history
参加这次将成为我国历史上
as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
为了争取自由而举行的最伟大的示威集会。
Five score years ago,
100年前，
a great American,
一位伟大的美国人
in whose symbolic shadow we stand today,
——今天我们就站在他象征性的身影下——
signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
签署了《解放宣言》。
This momentous decree came
这项重要法令的颁布，
as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves
who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴，犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔，
It came as a joyous daybreak
to end the long night of their captivity.
恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢的欢畅黎明。
But one hundred years later,
然而，100年后，
the Negro still is not free.
黑人依然没有获得自由。
One hundred years later,
100年后，
the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled
by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
黑人依然悲惨地蹒跚于种族隔离和种族歧视的枷锁之下。
One hundred years later,
100年后，
the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty
in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
黑人依然生活在物质繁荣翰海的贫困孤岛上。
One hundred years later,
100年后，
the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society
黑人依然在美国社会中间向隅而泣，
and finds himself an exile in his own land.
依然感到自己在国土家园中流离漂泊。
And so we"ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
所以，我们今天来到这里，要把这骇人听闻的情况公诸于众。
In a sense we"ve come to our nation"s capital to cash a check.
从某种意义上说，我们来到国家的首都是为了兑现一张支票。
When the architects of our republic
wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,
我们共和国的缔造者在拟写宪法和独立宣言的辉煌篇章时，
they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
就签署了一张每一个美国人都能继承的期票。
This note was a promise that all men,
这张期票向所有人承诺
yes, black men as well as white men,
——不论白人还是黑人——
would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
都享有不可让渡的生存权、自由权和追求幸福权。
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note,
insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
然而，今天美国显然对她的有色公民拖欠着这张期票。
Instead of honoring this sacred obligation,
相反，美国没有承兑这笔神圣的债务，
America has given the Negro people a bad check,
而是给黑人一张空头支票
a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds" .
——一张盖着“资金不足”的印戳被退回的支票。
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
但是，我们决不相信正义的银行会破产。
We refuse to believe that
我们决不相信
there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
这个国家巨大的机会宝库会资金不足。
So, we"ve come to cash this check,
因此，我们来兑现这张支票。这张支票将给我们以宝贵的自由和正义的保障。
a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
这张支票将给我们以宝贵的自由和正义的保障。
We have also come to this hallowed spot
我们来到这块圣地还为了提醒美国：
to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now.
现在正是万分紧急的时刻。
(This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off
现在不是从容不迫悠然行事
or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
或服用渐进主义镇静剂的时候。）
Now is the time
to make real the promises of democracy.
现在是实现民主诺言的时候。
Now is the time
to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation
现在是走出幽暗荒凉的种族隔离深谷，
to the sunlit path of racial justice.
踏上种族平等的阳关大道的时候
Now is the time
to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice
现在是使我们国家走出种族不平等的流沙，
to the solid rock of brotherhood.
踏上充满手足之情的磐石的时候。
Now is the time
to make justice a reality for all of God"s children.
现在是使上帝所有孩子真正享有公正的时候。
It would be fatal for the nation
to overlook the urgency of the moment.
忽视这一时刻的紧迫性，对于国家将会是致命的。
This sweltering summer of the Negro"s legitimate discontent
will not pass
until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
自由平等的朗朗秋日不到来，黑人顺情合理哀怨的酷暑就不会过去。
Nineteen sixty-three is not an end,
1963年不是一个结束，
but a beginning.
而是一个开端。
And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam
and will now be content
will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.
如果国家依然我行我素，那些希望黑人只需出出气就会心满意足的人将大失所望。
And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America
until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.
在黑人得到公民权之前，美国既不会安宁，也不会平静。
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation
反抗的旋风将继续震撼我们国家的基石，
until the bright day of justice emerges.
直至光辉灿烂的正义之日来临。
But there is something that I must say to my people,
who stand on the warm threshold
which leads into the palace of justice:
但是，对于站在通向正义之宫艰险门槛上的人们，有一些话我必须要说。
In the process of gaining our rightful place,
在我们争取合法地位的过程中，
we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
切不要错误行事导致犯罪。
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
我们切不要吞饮仇恨辛酸的苦酒，来解除对于自由的饮渴。
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
我们应该永远得体地、纪律严明地进行斗争。
We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
我们不能容许我们富有创造性的抗议沦为暴力行动。
Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights
of meeting physical force with soul force.
我们应该不断升华到用灵魂力量对付肉体力量的崇高境界。
The marvelous new militancy
which has engulfed the Negro community
席卷黑人社会的新的奇迹般的战斗精神，
must not lead us to a distrust of all white people,
不应导致我们对所有白人的不信任，
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.
因为许多白人兄弟已经认识到：
——他们今天来到这里参加集会就是明证，
他们的命运同我们的命运紧密相连，
And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
他们已经认识到他们的自由同我们的自由休戚相关。
We cannot walk alone.
我们不能单独行动。
And as we walk,
当我们行动时，
we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
我们必须保证勇往直前。
We cannot turn back.
我们不能后退。
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights,
有人问热心民权运动的人：
"When will you be satisfied?"
“你们什么时候会感到满意？”
We can never be satisfied
as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
只要黑人依然是不堪形容的警察暴行恐怖的牺牲品，我们就决不会满意。
We can never be satisfied
as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel,
cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
只要我们在旅途劳顿后，却被公路旁汽车游客旅社和城市旅馆拒之门外，我们就决不会满意。
(只要黑人的基本活动范围只限于从狭小的黑人居住区到较大的黑人居住区，我们就决不会满意。只要我们的孩子被“仅供白人”的牌子剥夺个性，损毁尊严，我们就决不会满意。)
We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote
and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
只要密西西比州的黑人不能参加选举，纽约州的黑人认为他们与选举毫不相干，我们就决不会满意。
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied
until "justice rolls down like waters,
and righteousness like a mighty stream."
不，不，我们不会满意，直至“公正似水奔流，正义如泉喷涌”。
I am not unmindful
that some of you have come here
out of great trials and tribulations.
我并非没有注意到你们有些人历尽艰难困苦来到这里。
Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.
你们有些人刚刚走出狭小的牢房。
And some of you have come from areas where your quest
-- quest for freedom
left you battered by the storms of persecution
有些人来自因追求自由而遭受迫害风暴袭击
and staggered by the winds of police brutality.
和警察暴虐狂飙摧残的地区。
You have been the veterans of creative suffering.
你们饱经风霜，历尽苦难。
Continue to work with the faith
that unearned suffering is redemptive.
继续努力吧，要相信：无辜受苦终得拯救。
Go back to Mississippi,
回到密西西比去吧，
go back to Alabama,
回到亚拉巴马去吧，
go back to South Carolina,
回到南卡罗来纳去吧，
go back to Georgia,
回到佐治亚去吧，
go back to Louisiana,
回到路易斯安那去吧，
go back
to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities,
回到我们北方城市中的贫民窟和黑人居住区去吧。
knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
要知道，这种情况能够而且将会改变。
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair,
我们切不要在绝望的深渊里沉沦。
I say to you today, my friends,
朋友们，今天我要对你们说，
so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,
尽管眼下困难重重，
I still have a dream.
但我依然怀有一个梦。
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
这个梦深深植根于美国梦之中。
I have a dream
that one day
我梦想有一天，
this nation will rise up,
这个国家将会奋起，
live out the true meaning of its creed:
实现其立国信条的真谛：
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
“我们认为这些真理不言而喻：人人生而平等。”
I have a dream
that one day
我梦想有一天，
on the red hills of Georgia,
在佐治亚州的红色山岗上，
the sons of farmer slaves and the sons of farmer slave owners
昔日奴隶的儿子同昔日奴隶主的儿子
will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
能够同席而坐，亲如手足。
I have a dream
that one day
我梦想有一天，
even the state of Mississippi,
甚至连密西西比州
a state
sweltering with the heat of injustice,
sweltering with the heat of oppression,
——一个非正义和压迫的热浪逼人的荒漠之州，
will be transformed into
an oasis of freedom and justice.
也会改造成为自由和公正的青青绿洲。
I have a dream
that my four little children
我梦想有一天，我的四个小女儿
will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
将生活在一个不是以皮肤的颜色，
but by the content of their character.
而是以品格的优劣作为评判标准的国家里。
I have a dream today!
我今天怀有一个梦。
I have a dream that one day,
我梦想有一天，
down in Alabama,
亚拉巴马州会有所改变
with its vicious racists,
——尽管该州仍有很多的种族主义者
with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification"
——尽管该州州长现在仍滔滔不绝地说什么要对联邦法令“提出异议”和“拒绝执行”
--one day right there in Alabama,
——在那里，
little black boys and black girls
will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls
as sisters and brothers.
黑人儿童能够和白人儿童兄弟姐妹般地携手并行。
I have a dream today!
我今天怀有一个梦。
I have a dream that one day
我梦想有一天，
every valley shall be exalted,
深谷弥合，
and every hill and mountain shall be made low,
高山夷平，
the rough places will be made plain,
歧路化坦途，
and the crooked places will be made straight;
曲径成通衢，
and "the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
上帝的光华再现，普天下生灵共谒。
This is our hope,
这是我们的希望。
and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
这是我将带回南方去的信念。
With this faith,
有了这个信念，
we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair
a stone of hope.
我们就能从绝望之山开采出希望之石。
With this faith,
有了这个信念，
we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation
我们就能把这个国家的嘈杂刺耳的争吵声，
into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
变为充满手足之情的悦耳交响曲。
With this faith,
有了这个信念，
we will be able to work together,
我们就能一同工作，
to pray together,
一同祈祷，
to struggle together,
一同斗争，
to go to jail together,
一同入狱，
to stand up for freedom together,
一同维护自由，
knowing that we will be free one day.
因为我们知道，我们终有一天会获得自由。
This will be the day
到了这一天，
-- this will be the day when all of God"s children
will be able to sing with new meaning:
上帝的所有孩子都能以新的含义高唱这首歌：
"My country "tis of thee,
我的祖国，
sweet land of liberty,
可爱的自由之邦，
of thee I sing.
我为您歌唱。
Land where my fathers died,
这是我祖先终老的地方，
land of the Pilgrim"s pride,
是早期移民自豪的地方，
From every mountainside, let freedom ring! "
让自由之声，响彻每一座山岗！
And if America is to be a great nation,
如果美国要成为伟大的国家，
this must become true.
这一点必须实现。
And so let freedom ring
from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
因此，让自由之声响彻新罕布什尔州的巍峨高峰！
Let freedom ring
from the mighty mountains of New York.
让自由之声响彻纽约州的崇山峻岭！
Let freedom ring
from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
让自由之声响彻宾夕法尼亚州的阿勒格尼高峰！
Let freedom ring
from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
让自由之声响彻科罗拉多州冰雪皑皑的洛基山！
Let freedom ring
from the curvaceous slopes of California.
让自由之声响彻加利福尼亚州的婀娜群峰！
But not only that:
不，不仅如此:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
让自由之声响彻佐治亚州的石山！
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
让自由之声响彻田纳西州的望山！
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
让自由之声响彻密西西比州的一座座山峰，一个个土丘！
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
让自由之声，响彻每一个山岗！
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring,
当我们让自由之声轰响，
when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,
当我们让自由之声响彻每一个大小村庄，
from every state and every city,
每一个州府和城镇，
we will be able to speed up that day
我们就能加速这一天的到来。
When all of God"s children,
那时，上帝的所有孩子，
black men and white men,
黑人和白人，
Jews and Gentiles,
犹太教徒和非犹太教徒，
Protestants and Catholics,
基督教徒和天主教徒，
will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
将能携手同唱那首古老的黑人灵歌：
"Free at last! Free at last!
“终于自由了！终于自由了！
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! "
感谢全能的上帝，我们终于自由了！”
S笔记-
1963five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic shadowwe stand 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.it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night ofcaptivity.but one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact thatthe negro is still not free. one hundred years later, the lifeof the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles ofsegregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred yearslater, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in themidst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred yearslater, the negro is still languishing in the corners of americansociety and finds himself an exile in his own land. so we havecome here today to dramatize an appalling condition.in a sense we have come to our nation"s capital to cash a check.when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent wordsof the constitution and the declaration of independence, theywere signing a promissory note to which every american was tofall heir. this note was a promise that all men would beguarranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and thepursuit of happiness.it is obvious today that america has defaulted on thispromissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.instead of honoring this sacred obligation, america has giventhe negro people a bad check which has come back markedinsufficient funds.justice is bankrupt. we refuse to believe that there areinsufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of thisnation. so we have come to cash this check -- a check that willgive us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security ofjustice. we have also come to this hallowed spot to remindamerica of the fierce urgency of now. this is no time to engagein the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drugof gradualism. now is the time to rise from the dark anddesolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racialjustice. now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to allof god"s children. now is the time to lift our nation from thequicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock ofbrotherhood.it would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of themoment and to underestimate the determination of the negro. thissweltering summer of the negro"s legitimate discontent will notpass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom andequality. nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.those who hope that the negro needed to blow off steam and willnow be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returnsto business as usual. there will be neither rest nor tranquilityin america until the negro is granted his citizenship rights.the whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundationsof our nation 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. inthe process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guiltyof wrongful deeds. let us not seek to satisfy our thirst forfreedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.we must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane ofdignity and discipline. we must not allow our creative protestto degenerate into physical violence. again and again we mustrise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soulforce. the marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the negrocommunity must not lead us to distrust of all white people, formany of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence heretoday, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up withour destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to ourfreedom. we cannot walk alone.and as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall marchahead. we cannot turn back. there are those who are asking thedevotees of civil rights, "when will you be satisfied?" we cannever be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigueof travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways andthe hotels of the cities. we cannot be satisfied as long as thenegro"s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.we can never be satisfied as long as a negro in mississippicannot vote and a negro in new york believes he has nothing forwhich to vote. no, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not besatisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousnesslike a mighty stream.i am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of greattrials and tribulations. some of you have come fresh from narrowcells. some of you have come from areas where your quest forfreedom left you battered by the storms of persecution andstaggered by the winds of police brutality. you have been theveterans of creative suffering. continue to work with the faiththat unearned suffering is redemptive.go back to mississippi, go back to alabama, go back to georgia,go back to louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of ournorthern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can andwill be changed. let us not wallow in the valley of despair.i say to you today, my friends, that in spite of thedifficulties and frustrations of the moment, i still have adream. it is a dream deeply rooted in the american dream.i have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and liveout the true meaning of its creed: "we hold these truths to beself-evident: that all men are created equal."i have a dream that one day on the red hills of georgia the sonsof former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be ableto sit down together at a table of brotherhood.i have a dream that one day even the state of mississippi, adesert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice andoppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom andjustice.i have a dream that my four children will one day live in anation where they will not be judged by the color of their skinbut by the content of their character.i have a dream today.i have a dream that one day the state of alabama, whosegovernor"s lips are presently dripping with the words ofinterposition and nullification, will be transformed into asituation where little black boys and black girls will be ableto join hands with little white boys and white girls and walktogether as sisters and brothers.i have a dream today.i have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, everyhill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will bemade plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, andthe glory of the lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall seeit together.this is our hope. this is the faith with which i return to thesouth. with this faith we will be able to hew out of themountain of despair a stone of hope. with this faith we will beable to transform the jangling discords of our nation into abeautiful symphony of brotherhood. with this faith we will beable to work together, to pray together, to struggle together,to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together,knowing that we will be free one day.this will be the day when all of god"s children will be able tosing with a new meaning, "my country, "tis of thee, sweet landof liberty, of thee i sing. land where my fathers died, land ofthe pilgrim"s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."and if america is to be a great nation this must become true. solet freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of new hampshire.let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of new york. letfreedom ring from the heightening alleghenies of pennsylvania!let freedom ring from the snowcapped rockies of colorado!let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of california!but not only that; let freedom ring from stone mountain ofgeorgia!let freedom ring from lookout mountain of tennessee!let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill ofmississippi. from every mountainside, let freedom ring.when we let freedom ring, whem we let it ring from every villageand every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will beable to speed up that day when all of god"s children, black menand white men, jews and gentiles, protestants and catholics,will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the oldnegro spiritual, "free at last! free at last! thank godalmighty, we are free at last!"
100年前，一位伟大的美国人——今天我们就站在他象征性的身影下——签署了《解放宣言》。这项重要法令的颁布，对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴，犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔，恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢的欢畅黎明。
然而，100年后，黑人依然没有获得自由。100年后，黑人依然悲惨地蹒跚于种族隔离和种族歧视的枷锁之下。100年后，黑人依然生活在物质繁荣翰海的贫困孤岛上。100年后，黑人依然在美国社会中间向隅而泣，依然感到自己在国土家园中流离漂泊。所以，我们今天来到这里，要把这骇人听闻的情况公诸于众。
从某种意义上说，我们来到国家的首都是为了兑现一张支票。我们共和国的缔造者在拟写宪法和独立宣言的辉煌篇章时，就签署了一张每一个美国人都能继承的期票。这张期票向所有人承诺——不论白人还是黑人——都享有不可让渡的生存权、自由权和追求幸福权。
然而，今天美国显然对她的有色公民拖欠着这张期票。美国没有承兑这笔神圣的债务，而是开始给黑人一张空头支票——一张盖着“资金不足”的印戳被退回的支票。但是，我们决不相信正义的银行会破产。我们决不相信这个国家巨大的机会宝库会资金不足。
因此，我们来兑现这张支票。这张支票将给我们以宝贵的自由和正义的保障。
我们来到这块圣地还为了提醒美国：现在正是万分紧急的时刻。现在不是从容不迫悠然行事或服用渐进主义镇静剂的时候。现在是实现民主诺言的时候。现在是走出幽暗荒凉的种族隔离深谷，踏上种族平等的阳关大道的时候。现在是使我们国家走出种族不平等的流沙，踏上充满手足之情的磐石的时候。现在是使上帝所有孩子真正享有公正的时候。
忽视这一时刻的紧迫性，对于国家将会是致命的。自由平等的朗朗秋日不到来，黑人顺情合理哀怨的酷暑就不会过去。1963年不是一个结束，而是一个开端。
如果国家依然我行我素，那些希望黑人只需出出气就会心满意足的人将大失所望。在黑人得到公民权之前，美国既不会安宁，也不会平静。反抗的旋风将继续震撼我们国家的基石，直至光辉灿烂的正义之日来临。
但是，对于站在通向正义之宫艰险门槛上的人们，有一些话我必须要说。在我们争取合法地位的过程中，切不要错误行事导致犯罪。我们切不要吞饮仇恨辛酸的苦酒，来解除对于自由的饮渴。
我们应该永远得体地、纪律严明地进行斗争。我们不能容许我们富有创造性的抗议沦为暴力行动。我们应该不断升华到用灵魂力量对付肉体力量的崇高境界。
席卷黑人社会的新的奇迹般的战斗精神，不应导致我们对所有白人的不信任——因为许多白人兄弟已经认识到：他们的命运同我们的命运紧密相连，他们的自由同我们的自由休戚相关。他们今天来到这里参加集会就是明证。
我们不能单独行动。当我们行动时，我们必须保证勇往直前。我们不能后退。有人问热心民权运动的人：“你们什么时候会感到满意？”只要黑人依然是不堪形容的警察暴行恐怖的牺牲品，我们就决不会满意。只要我们在旅途劳顿后，却被公路旁汽车游客旅社和城市旅馆拒之门外，我们就决不会满意。只要黑人的基本活动范围只限于从狭小的黑人居住区到较大的黑人居住区，我们就决不会满意。只要我们的孩子被“仅供白人”的牌子剥夺个性，损毁尊严，我们就决不会满意。只要密西西比州的黑人不能参加选举，纽约州的黑人认为他们与选举毫不相干，我们就决不会满意。不，不，我们不会满意，直至公正似水奔流，正义如泉喷涌。
我并非没有注意到你们有些人历尽艰难困苦来到这里。你们有些人刚刚走出狭小的牢房。有些人来自因追求自由而遭受迫害风暴袭击和警察暴虐狂飙摧残的地区。你们饱经风霜，历尽苦难。继续努力吧，要相信：无辜受苦终得拯救。
回到密西西比去吧；回到亚拉巴马去吧；回到南卡罗来纳去吧；回到佐治亚去吧；回到路易斯安那去吧；回到我们北方城市中的贫民窟和黑人居住区去吧。要知道，这种情况能够而且将会改变。我们切不要在绝望的深渊里沉沦。
朋友们，今天我要对你们说，尽管眼下困难重重，但我依然怀有一个梦。这个梦深深植根于美国梦之中。
我梦想有一天，这个国家将会奋起，实现其立国信条的真谛：“我们认为这些真理不言而喻：人人生而平等。”
我梦想有一天，在佐治亚州的红色山岗上，昔日奴隶的儿子能够同昔日奴隶主的儿子同席而坐，亲如手足。
我梦想有一天，甚至连密西西比州——一个非正义和压迫的热浪逼人的荒漠之州，也会改造成为自由和公正的青青绿洲。
我梦想有一天，我的四个小女儿将生活在一个不是以皮肤的颜色，而是以品格的优劣作为评判标准的国家里。
我今天怀有一个梦。
我梦想有一天，亚拉巴马州会有所改变——尽管该州州长现在仍滔滔不绝地说什么要对联邦法令提出异议和拒绝执行——在那里，黑人儿童能够和白人儿童兄弟姐妹般地携手并行。
我今天怀有一个梦。
我梦想有一天，深谷弥合，高山夷平，歧路化坦途，曲径成通衢，上帝的光华再现，普天下生灵共谒。
这是我们的希望。这是我将带回南方去的信念。有了这个信念，我们就能从绝望之山开采出希望之石。有了这个信念，我们就能把这个国家的嘈杂刺耳的争吵声，变为充满手足之情的悦耳交响曲。有了这个信念，我们就能一同工作，一同祈祷，一同斗争，一同入狱，一同维护自由，因为我们知道，我们终有一天会获得自由。
到了这一天，上帝的所有孩子都能以新的含义高唱这首歌：
我的祖国，可爱的自由之邦，我为您歌唱。这是我祖先终老的地方，这是早期移民自豪的地方，让自由之声，响彻每一座山岗。
如果美国要成为伟大的国家，这一点必须实现。因此，让自由之声响彻新罕布什尔州的巍峨高峰！
让自由之声响彻纽约州的崇山峻岭！
让自由之声响彻宾夕法尼亚州的阿勒格尼高峰！
让自由之声响彻科罗拉多州冰雪皑皑的洛基山！
让自由之声响彻加利福尼亚州的婀娜群峰！
不，不仅如此；让自由之声响彻佐治亚州的石山！
让自由之声响彻田纳西州的望山！
让自由之声响彻密西西比州的一座座山峰，一个个土丘！
让自由之声响彻每一个山岗！
当我们让自由之声轰响，当我们让自由之声响彻每一个大村小庄，每一个州府城镇，我们就能加速这一天的到来。那时，上帝的所有孩子，黑人和白人，犹太教徒和非犹太教徒，耶稣教徒和天主教徒，将能携手同唱那首古老的黑人灵歌：“终于自由了！终于自由了！感谢全能的上帝，我们终于自由了！”
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......I say to you, my friends, so even though we must face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers; I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places shall be made plain, and the crooked places shall be made straight and the glory of the Lord will be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to go to jail together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God"s children will be able to sing with new meaning-"my country "tis of thee; sweet land of liberty; of thee I sing; land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim"s pride; from every mountain side, let freedom ring"-and if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
So let freedom ring -- from the prodigious hill tops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring; from the mighty mountains of New York.Let freedom ring -- from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that.Let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and hamlet, from every state and city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God"s children - black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants - will be able to join hands and to sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last; thank God Almighty, we are free at last."
……今天，我对你们说，我的朋友们，尽管此时的困难与挫折，我们仍然有个梦，这是深深扎根于美国梦中的梦。
我有一个梦：有一天，这个国家将站起来，并实现它的信条的真正含义：“我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的，即所有的人都生来平等。”
我有一个梦：有一天，在乔治亚州的红色山丘上，从前奴隶的子孙们和从前奴隶主的子孙们将能像兄弟般地坐在同一桌旁。
我有一个梦：有一天，甚至密西西比州，一个有着不公正和压迫的热浪袭人的荒漠之州，将改造成自由和公正的绿洲。
我有一个梦：我的4个小孩将有一天生活在一个国度里，在那里，人们不是从他们的肤色，而是从他们的品格来评价他们。
今天我有一个梦想：
我有一个梦：有一天，阿拉巴马州将变成这样一个地方，那里黑人小男孩、小女孩可以和白人小男孩、小女孩，像兄弟姐妹一样手牵手并肩而行。
今天我有一个梦想。
我有一个梦：有一天，每一个峡谷将升高，每一座山丘和高峰被削低，崎岖粗糙的地方改造成平原，弯弯曲曲的地方变得笔直，上帝的荣耀得以展露，全人类都将举目共睹。
这是我们的希望，这是信念，带着这个信念我回到南方，怀着这个信念我们将能从绝望之山中开采出一块希望之石。怀着这个信念，我们将能把我们国家的刺耳的不和音，转变成一曲优美动听的兄弟情谊交响曲。怀着这个信念，我们将能工作在一起，祈祷在一起，奋斗在一起，一起赴监狱，一起为自由而挺住。因为我们知道，有一天我们将获自由。
将会有一天，那时，所有上帝的孩子们将能以新的含义高唱：
我的祖国，
你是自由的乐土。
我为你歌唱：
我的先辈的安葬之地，
让自由的声音，
响彻每一道山岗。
如果说美国是一个伟大的国家，这必须要成真。因此，让自由的声音从新罕布什尔州巨大的山巅响起吧。让自由的声音从纽约州巍巍群山响起吧，让自由的声音从宾夕法尼亚州阿拉根尼高原响起吧！
让自由的声音从科罗拉多州冰雪覆盖的落基山脉响起吧！
让自由的声音从加利福尼亚婀娜多姿的山峰上响起吧！
但不仅如此，还让自由之声从乔治亚州的石峰上响起吧！
让自由之声从田纳西州的观景峰响起吧！
让自由之声从密西西比州的每一道山丘响起吧！在每一道山坡上，让自由之声响起吧！
当我们让自由之声响彻之时，当我们让它从每一座村庄，从每一个州和每一座城市响起时，我们将能加速这一天的到来，那时，所有上帝的孩子们，黑人和白人，犹太人和异教徒们，基督徒和天主教徒们，将能手挽手，以那古老的黑人圣歌的歌词高唱；
“终于自由了！终于自由了！感谢全能的上帝，我们终于自由了！”
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