零落成泥碾作尘只有香如故的马丁路德金演讲《我有一个梦想》中英双语

2021年1月19日发(作者：甘渭汉)
I have a dream

我有一个梦想














Martin Luther King, Jr.
马丁
.
路德
.
金
（公元
1929-1968
年）
，
美国黑人律 师，
著名黑人民权运动领袖。
一生曾三次被捕，
三次被行刺，
1964
年获诺贝尔和平奖。
1968
年被种族主义分子枪杀。他被誉为近百年来八大最具有说服力的 演说家之一。
1963
年
他领导
25
万人向华盛顿进行“大游行”< br>，为黑人争取自由平等和就业。马丁
.
路德
.
金在进行游行集会上发表 了这
篇著名的演讲。

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 bad captivity.
一百年前，< br>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。
它的 到来犹如欢乐的黎明，
结束了束
缚黑人的漫漫长夜。


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 socie
ty and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we’ve come here today to
dramatize a shameful condition.

然而一百年后的今天，黑人还没有得到自由，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贫困的 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。



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
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




在某种意义上，
我们来到我国首都是为着兑支票。
当我们共和国的创建者们 写下宪法和独立宣言时，
他们也
就签署了一份期票，每个美国人都有它的继承权。这期票是一种 许诺，保证给予每一个人不可转让的生活、自由
和追求幸福的权利。
显而易见，
今天美 国在关系到她有色人种公民的问题上已对这份期票违约。
美国没有承兑这
一神圣的契约，而是给 黑人一张空头支票；该支票被写上
“
存款不足
”
退回。但是我们不相信正义的 银行已破产。


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.




我们不相信这个国家机会的金库中已存款不足。
所以我们来此兑支票—
一这支票将按要求给予我们自由的财
富和公正的保障。


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.




我们来 到这神圣的地点，
也是为了提醒美国记住现在极端紧迫的任务。
目前不是享受一下清静或服用渐 进主
义镇静剂的时候。
现在该实现民主的许诺了。
现在该从种族隔离黑暗荒凉的峡谷走 上种族公平的金光大道了。
现
在该向上帝所有的孩子们打开机会的大门了。
现在该把我 国从种族歧视的流沙中救出，
置于兄弟情谊的坚硬岩石
之上了。


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.




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。


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.




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


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.


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。


We cannot walk alone.
我们不能独自行进。

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
我们一旦起步，就必须发誓勇往直前。

We cannot turn back.
我们不能往回走。


There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights,
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
righteousness like a mighty stream.
有人这样问民权运动的忠实斗士：
“
你们何时才能满足？
”
只要黑人仍是警察暴行难以形容的恐怖的受害者，
我们就决不会满足。

只要 我们虽经旅途奔波浑身疲乏仍无法在公路或城市中租用汽车游客旅馆，我们就决不会
满足。
< br>只要黑人的基本流动方式只是从一处较小的黑人区迁到一处较大的黑人区，
我们就决不会满足。< br>
只要密
西西比州有一个黑人不能投票，
只要纽约有一个黑人认为没有什么东西 值得他去投票，
我们就不会满足。

是的，
我们不满足，而且我们将永不满足，直到公正如洪水，正义如激流滚滚而来。


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. Some of you have come from areas where your 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.