I Have A Dream(马丁路德金《我有一个梦想》演讲英文原稿)

2021年1月24日发(作者：曹冷)
I Have A Dream
（马丁路德金《我有一个梦想》演讲英文原稿）

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.
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I Have A Dream
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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

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


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.
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I Have A Dream
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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
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I Have A Dream
（马丁路德金《我有一个梦想》演讲英文原稿）

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
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I Have A Dream
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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,
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
the
Negro's
basic
mobility
is
from
a
smaller
ghetto
to
a larger
one.
We
can
never
be
satisfied
as
long
as
our
children
are
stripped
of
their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs
stating

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

rolls
down
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