1、1Martin Luther King, Jr.“I Have a Dream“delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.Video PurchaseMartin Luther King, Jr.: “I Have a Dream“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in 2historywhat will be remembered as the greatest demonstrationa public display of
2、group feelings (usually of a political nature) for freedom in the history of our nation.Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadowshade within clear boundaries we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation【解放黑奴宣言 】. This momentous decreelaw came as a great beacona tower
3、with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships light of hope to millions of Negro slaves, who had been searedmake very hot and dry; burn in the flames of witheringbecoming dry injustice. It came as a joyous daybreakdawn to end the long night of their captivitythe state of being imprisone
4、d.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手铐 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
5、 material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishedlose vigor;suffer;imprison in the corners of American society and finds himself an exilea person expelled from home or country by authority in his own land. And so weve come here today to dramatizespeak out a shameful 3disgr
6、acefulcondition.In a sense we have come to our nations capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution【宪法】 and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note【本票，期票】 to which every American was to fall heir. This note
7、was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteedensured the unalienable【that cannot be deprived of】 rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaultednot to keep ones promise on this promissory note, insofar as he
8、r citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacredsaint 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
9、funds in the great vaultscellar;basement 拱顶；地窖（vault 的复数形式） ；保管库；撑杆跳 of opportunity of this nation. And so we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.4 We have also come to this hallowedsaint spot to remind America of the
10、fiercegreat urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling offcalm down or to take the tranquilizing drug【镇静性药物】 of gradualism渐进主义. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolatelonely valley of segregation to the sunlit
11、 path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksandsn. 流沙；危险的陷阱（quicksand 的复数） of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of Gods children.It would be fatal【serious; severe】 for the nation to overlookneglect the
12、urgency of the moment. This swelteringexcessively hot summer of the Negros legitimatereasonable; lawful discontentdissatisfaction will not pass until there is an invigoratingimparting strength and vitality; inspiring autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning.
13、 Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steamlose ones temper; get angry 发脾气 and will now be contentsatisfied will have a rude awakeningwake up at once if the nation returns to business as usualdoes not have any change. There will be neither restrelaxation nor tranquilitypeace 5in America
14、until the Negro is granted givenhis citizenship rights. The whirlwindshurricane; typhoon; 旋风 of revolt【opposition】 will continue to shake the foundationsbase of our nation until the bright day of justice emergesappears.But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm thresho
15、ldentrance which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightfullawful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfymeet our thirstdesire for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitternessresentment and hatred. We must ever conductlead; direct our
16、 struggle on the high planelevel of dignitynobleness and disciplineself-control. We must not allow our creative protestobjection to degenerate into退化为 become physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majesticnoble heightsplane of meeting physical force with soul force.The marvelousgreat
17、 new militancya state of aggressiveness which has engulfedflow over and cover competely the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidencedproved by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destinyfate is tied up 6wit
18、h our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricablythat cannot be separated 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,
19、 “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 citie
20、s. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negros basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto【slum;】 to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped ofare deprived of their self-hoodoneself; ego and robbed of their dignitythe quality of being worthy of esteem or respect by
21、signs stating: “For Whites Only.“ We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot votehas no right for voting and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to votedoes not know who he should vote for. No, no, we are not satisfied, and 7we will not be satisfied until “just
22、ice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.“I am not unmindfullacking conscious awareness of；not aware of that some of you have come here out of great trialshardship and tribulationsannoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; hardship. Some of you have come freshjust from
23、narrow jailprision cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest - quest for freedom left you battereddamaged by blows or hard usage by the storms of persecutionthe act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion);causing to suffer and staggeredlame; crippled by the wi
24、nds of police brutalitycruelty. You have been the veteransold soldier of creativedifferent suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearnedimproper suffering is redemptivethat can be saved 可以得到拯救的 . Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go
25、 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 wallowdevote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure 沉溺于 in the valley of despair, I say to you today,
26、 my friends.8And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in【based on】 the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up【stand up】 and live outcarry out; 实践 the true meaning of its creedany system of princi
27、ples or beliefs: “We hold these truths to be self-evidentevident without proof or argument, 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 brother
28、hoodthe feeling that men should treat one another like brothers.I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state swelteringbe uncomfortably hot; suffer from intense heatwith the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppressionthe state of being kept down by unjust use of f
29、orce or authority, will be transformed into an oasisa fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface) of freedom and justice.9I 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
30、 of their charactertreated fairly and equally. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious having the nature of vice; evilracistsperson with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of
31、“interposition“the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts 满口异议 and “nullification“the states-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and
32、 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 exaltedheighten or intensify , and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plainsmooth; level
33、, and the crookedhaving or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned places will be 10made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all fleshall the people shall see it together.“2This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.With this faith, we
34、will be able to hewmake or shape as with an axe out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the janglingquarrelling discordsa harsh mixture of sounds; lack of agreement or harmony of our nation into a beautiful symphonya long and complex sonata for s
35、ymphony orchestra of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to prayaddress God; say a prayer together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up forsupport freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.And this will be the day - this will be the day when all of Gods children will be able to sing with new meaning:My country tis of theeyou, sweet land of liberty, of thee I singspeak highly of. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims someone who journeys in foreign lands2.
