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[00:00.01] 演讲:Martin Luther King
[00:01.40] 名称:I Have a Dream
[00:01.50]
[00:01.86] I am happy to join with you today
[00:06.75] in what will go down in history as
[00:12.58] the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
[00:25.10]
[00:25.83] Five score years ago, a great American,
[00:32.20] in whose symbolic shadow we stand today,
[00:38.85] signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
[00:42.84] This momentous decree came as a great
[00:48.69] beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves
[00:53.27] who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
[01:08.11] It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
[01:08.55]
[01:10.48] But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.
[01:19.59] One hundred years later,
[01:23.60] the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled
[01:28.83] by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
[01:34.52] One hundred years later,
[01:38.68] the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of
[01:44.82] a vast ocean of material prosperity.
[01:48.79] One hundred years later,
[01:54.30] the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society
[02:00.82] and finds himself an exile in his own land.
[02:05.90] And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
[02:12.71]
[02:13.56] In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check.
[02:18.87] When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words
[02:25.11] of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,
[02:30.80] they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
[02:38.55] This note was a promise that all men, yes,
[02:45.07] black men as well as white men,
[02:48.37] would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life,
[02:51.71] Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
[02:57.13] It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note,
[03:04.10] insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
[03:07.96] Instead of honoring this sacred obligation,
[03:14.98] America has given the Negro people a bad check,
[03:19.76] a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
[03:26.73]
[03:35.82] But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
[03:43.81] We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds
[03:51.07] in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so,
[03:54.57] we've come to cash this check,
[03:55.58] a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom
[03:57.97] and the security of justice.
[04:07.33]
[04:10.07] We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of
[04:15.78] the fierce urgency of Now.
[04:20.10] This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off
[04:26.17] or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
[04:36.01] Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.
[04:42.81] Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation
[04:49.53] to the sunlit path of racial justice.
[04:52.73] Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands
[05:03.58] of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
[05:05.07] Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
[05:12.72]
[05:14.13] It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.
[05:20.00] This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent
[05:24.66] will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
[05:33.46] Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.
[05:38.98] And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam
[05:44.27] and will now be content will have a rude awakening
[05:48.64] if the nation returns to business as usual.
[06:06.57] And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America
[06:10.70] until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.
[06:15.36] The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations
[06:19.26] of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
[06:25.64]
[06:25.98] But there is something that I must say to my people,
[06:29.27] who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice:
[06:36.35] In the process of gaining our rightful place,
[06:41.10] we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
[06:46.25] Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom
[06:50.12] by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
[07:02.93] We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
[07:08.86] We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
[07:17.20] Again and again,
[07:18.23] we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
[07:25.07]
[07:25.39] The marvelous new militancy
[07:28.10] which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust
[07:33.61] of all white people, for many of our white brothers,
[07:39.91] as evidenced by their presence here today,
[07:41.46] have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.
[07:56.56] And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
[07:59.65]
[08:00.18] We cannot walk alone.
[08:00.96]
[08:01.44] And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
[08:02.67]
[08:12.24] We cannot turn back.
[08:13.27]
[08:15.45] There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights,
[08:19.69] "When will you be satisfied?"
[08:22.67] We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the
[08:26.53] victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
[08:31.92] We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies,
[08:37.27] heavy with the fatigue of travel,
[08:40.45] cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways
[08:43.70] and the hotels of the cities.
[08:51.06]
[08:52.26] We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi
[08:56.45] cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
[09:09.16] No, no, we are not satisfied,
[09:13.42] and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters,
[09:18.61] and righteousness like a mighty stream."
[09:23.64]
[09:28.67] I am not unmindful that some of you have come here
[09:37.52] out of great trials and tribulations.
[09:43.08] Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.
[09:47.63] And some of you have come from areas where your quest --
[09:50.88] quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution
[09:58.01] and staggered by the winds of police brutality.
[10:03.63] You have been the veterans of creative suffering.
[10:06.20] Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
[10:15.51]
[10:16.50] Go back to Mississippi,
[10:17.90] go back to Alabama,
[10:19.47] go back to South Carolina,
[10:21.06] go back to Georgia,
[10:22.48] go back to Louisiana,
[10:23.93] go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities,
[10:29.21] knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
[10:34.47]
[10:34.77] Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
[10:43.63]
[10:51.64] And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,
[10:58.70] I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
[11:06.92]
[11:07.49] I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up
[11:21.00] and live out the true meaning of its creed:
[11:22.30] "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
[11:34.84]
[11:35.28] I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia,
[11:42.21] the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners
[11:48.16] will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
[11:52.02]
[11:52.29] I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,
[11:59.10] a state sweltering with the heat of injustice,
[12:06.02] sweltering with the heat of oppression,
[12:09.51] will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
[12:13.69]
[12:14.01] I have a dream that my four little children will one day
[12:22.63] live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
[12:26.63] but by the content of their character.
[12:28.79]
[12:29.11] I have a dream today!
[12:38.85]
[12:40.14] I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama,
[12:47.80] with its vicious racists,
[12:50.26] with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition"
[12:55.21] and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys
[13:00.09] and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys
[13:04.28] and white girls as sisters and brothers.
[13:06.73]
[13:07.16] I have a dream today!
[13:15.76]
[13:16.03] I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
[13:20.95] and every hill and mountain shall be made low,
[13:23.69] the rough places will be made plain,
[13:25.82] and the crooked places will be made straight;
[13:28.25] "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."?
[13:33.83] This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
[13:39.57]
[13:39.82] With this faith,
[13:41.65] we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
[13:47.04] With this faith,
[13:48.94] we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a
[13:53.61] beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith,
[13:58.27] we will be able to work together,
[14:00.10] to pray together,
[14:00.75] to struggle together,
[14:02.30] to go to jail together,
[14:04.16] to stand up for freedom together,
[14:06.40] knowing that we will be free one day.
[14:09.42]
[14:11.10] And this will be the day
[14:14.57] this will be the day when all of God's children
[14:18.41] will be able to sing with new meaning:
[14:20.78]
[14:21.07] My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
[14:26.66]
[14:27.21] Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,
[14:31.59]
[14:31.91] From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
[14:35.44]
[14:35.87] And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
[14:40.43]
[14:40.65] And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
[14:46.10]
[14:46.33] Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
[14:50.26]
[14:50.57] Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
[14:55.65]
[14:55.92] Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
[14:58.99]
[15:00.54] Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
[15:04.85]
[15:05.04] But not only that:
[15:06.31]
[15:06.64] Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
[15:11.28]
[15:11.66] Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
[15:15.71] Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
[15:21.40]
[15:21.69] From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
[15:25.08]
[15:25.65] And when this happens,
[15:30.75] when we allow freedom ring,
[15:33.85] when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,
[15:36.93] from every state and every city,
[15:40.88]
[15:41.11] we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children,
[15:45.63] black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,
[15:50.11] will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
[15:57.70] Free at last!
[15:58.05] free at last!
[15:59.29] Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
[16:01.02] (the end)
[00:00.01] yan jiang: Martin Luther King
[00:01.40] ming cheng: I Have a Dream
[00:01.50]
[00:01.86] I am happy to join with you today
[00:06.75] in what will go down in history as
[00:12.58] the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
[00:25.10]
[00:25.83] Five score years ago, a great American,
[00:32.20] in whose symbolic shadow we stand today,
[00:38.85] signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
[00:42.84] This momentous decree came as a great
[00:48.69] beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves
[00:53.27] who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
[01:08.11] It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
[01:08.55]
[01:10.48] But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.
[01:19.59] One hundred years later,
[01:23.60] the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled
[01:28.83] by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
[01:34.52] One hundred years later,
[01:38.68] the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of
[01:44.82] a vast ocean of material prosperity.
[01:48.79] One hundred years later,
[01:54.30] the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society
[02:00.82] and finds himself an exile in his own land.
[02:05.90] And so we' ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
[02:12.71]
[02:13.56] In a sense we' ve come to our nation' s capital to cash a check.
[02:18.87] When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words
[02:25.11] of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,
[02:30.80] they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
[02:38.55] This note was a promise that all men, yes,
[02:45.07] black men as well as white men,
[02:48.37] would be guaranteed the " unalienable Rights" of " Life,
[02:51.71] Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
[02:57.13] It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note,
[03:04.10] insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
[03:07.96] Instead of honoring this sacred obligation,
[03:14.98] America has given the Negro people a bad check,
[03:19.76] a check which has come back marked " insufficient funds."
[03:26.73]
[03:35.82] But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
[03:43.81] We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds
[03:51.07] in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so,
[03:54.57] we' ve come to cash this check,
[03:55.58] a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom
[03:57.97] and the security of justice.
[04:07.33]
[04:10.07] We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of
[04:15.78] the fierce urgency of Now.
[04:20.10] This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off
[04:26.17] or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
[04:36.01] Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.
[04:42.81] Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation
[04:49.53] to the sunlit path of racial justice.
[04:52.73] Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands
[05:03.58] of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
[05:05.07] Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God' s children.
[05:12.72]
[05:14.13] It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.
[05:20.00] This sweltering summer of the Negro' s legitimate discontent
[05:24.66] will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
[05:33.46] Nineteen sixtythree is not an end, but a beginning.
[05:38.98] And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam
[05:44.27] and will now be content will have a rude awakening
[05:48.64] if the nation returns to business as usual.
[06:06.57] And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America
[06:10.70] until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.
[06:15.36] The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations
[06:19.26] of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
[06:25.64]
[06:25.98] But there is something that I must say to my people,
[06:29.27] who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice:
[06:36.35] In the process of gaining our rightful place,
[06:41.10] we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
[06:46.25] Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom
[06:50.12] by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
[07:02.93] We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
[07:08.86] We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
[07:17.20] Again and again,
[07:18.23] we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
[07:25.07]
[07:25.39] The marvelous new militancy
[07:28.10] which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust
[07:33.61] of all white people, for many of our white brothers,
[07:39.91] as evidenced by their presence here today,
[07:41.46] have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.
[07:56.56] And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
[07:59.65]
[08:00.18] We cannot walk alone.
[08:00.96]
[08:01.44] And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
[08:02.67]
[08:12.24] We cannot turn back.
[08:13.27]
[08:15.45] There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights,
[08:19.69] " When will you be satisfied?"
[08:22.67] We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the
[08:26.53] victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
[08:31.92] We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies,
[08:37.27] heavy with the fatigue of travel,
[08:40.45] cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways
[08:43.70] and the hotels of the cities.
[08:51.06]
[08:52.26] We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi
[08:56.45] cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
[09:09.16] No, no, we are not satisfied,
[09:13.42] and we will not be satisfied until " justice rolls down like waters,
[09:18.61] and righteousness like a mighty stream."
[09:23.64]
[09:28.67] I am not unmindful that some of you have come here
[09:37.52] out of great trials and tribulations.
[09:43.08] Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.
[09:47.63] And some of you have come from areas where your quest
[09:50.88] quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution
[09:58.01] and staggered by the winds of police brutality.
[10:03.63] You have been the veterans of creative suffering.
[10:06.20] Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
[10:15.51]
[10:16.50] Go back to Mississippi,
[10:17.90] go back to Alabama,
[10:19.47] go back to South Carolina,
[10:21.06] go back to Georgia,
[10:22.48] go back to Louisiana,
[10:23.93] go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities,
[10:29.21] knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
[10:34.47]
[10:34.77] Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
[10:43.63]
[10:51.64] And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,
[10:58.70] I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
[11:06.92]
[11:07.49] I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up
[11:21.00] and live out the true meaning of its creed:
[11:22.30] " We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal."
[11:34.84]
[11:35.28] I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia,
[11:42.21] the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners
[11:48.16] will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
[11:52.02]
[11:52.29] I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,
[11:59.10] a state sweltering with the heat of injustice,
[12:06.02] sweltering with the heat of oppression,
[12:09.51] will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
[12:13.69]
[12:14.01] I have a dream that my four little children will one day
[12:22.63] live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
[12:26.63] but by the content of their character.
[12:28.79]
[12:29.11] I have a dream today!
[12:38.85]
[12:40.14] I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama,
[12:47.80] with its vicious racists,
[12:50.26] with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of " interposition"
[12:55.21] and " nullification" one day right there in Alabama little black boys
[13:00.09] and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys
[13:04.28] and white girls as sisters and brothers.
[13:06.73]
[13:07.16] I have a dream today!
[13:15.76]
[13:16.03] I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
[13:20.95] and every hill and mountain shall be made low,
[13:23.69] the rough places will be made plain,
[13:25.82] and the crooked places will be made straight
[13:28.25] " and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."?
[13:33.83] This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
[13:39.57]
[13:39.82] With this faith,
[13:41.65] we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
[13:47.04] With this faith,
[13:48.94] we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a
[13:53.61] beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith,
[13:58.27] we will be able to work together,
[14:00.10] to pray together,
[14:00.75] to struggle together,
[14:02.30] to go to jail together,
[14:04.16] to stand up for freedom together,
[14:06.40] knowing that we will be free one day.
[14:09.42]
[14:11.10] And this will be the day
[14:14.57] this will be the day when all of God' s children
[14:18.41] will be able to sing with new meaning:
[14:20.78]
[14:21.07] My country ' tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
[14:26.66]
[14:27.21] Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim' s pride,
[14:31.59]
[14:31.91] From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
[14:35.44]
[14:35.87] And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
[14:40.43]
[14:40.65] And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
[14:46.10]
[14:46.33] Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
[14:50.26]
[14:50.57] Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
[14:55.65]
[14:55.92] Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado.
[14:58.99]
[15:00.54] Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
[15:04.85]
[15:05.04] But not only that:
[15:06.31]
[15:06.64] Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
[15:11.28]
[15:11.66] Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
[15:15.71] Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
[15:21.40]
[15:21.69] From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
[15:25.08]
[15:25.65] And when this happens,
[15:30.75] when we allow freedom ring,
[15:33.85] when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,
[15:36.93] from every state and every city,
[15:40.88]
[15:41.11] we will be able to speed up that day when all of God' s children,
[15:45.63] black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,
[15:50.11] will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
[15:57.70] Free at last!
[15:58.05] free at last!
[15:59.29] Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
[16:01.02] the end
[00:00.01] yǎn jiǎng: Martin Luther King
[00:01.40] míng chēng: I Have a Dream
[00:01.50]
[00:01.86] I am happy to join with you today
[00:06.75] in what will go down in history as
[00:12.58] the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
[00:25.10]
[00:25.83] Five score years ago, a great American,
[00:32.20] in whose symbolic shadow we stand today,
[00:38.85] signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
[00:42.84] This momentous decree came as a great
[00:48.69] beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves
[00:53.27] who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
[01:08.11] It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
[01:08.55]
[01:10.48] But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.
[01:19.59] One hundred years later,
[01:23.60] the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled
[01:28.83] by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
[01:34.52] One hundred years later,
[01:38.68] the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of
[01:44.82] a vast ocean of material prosperity.
[01:48.79] One hundred years later,
[01:54.30] the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society
[02:00.82] and finds himself an exile in his own land.
[02:05.90] And so we' ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
[02:12.71]
[02:13.56] In a sense we' ve come to our nation' s capital to cash a check.
[02:18.87] When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words
[02:25.11] of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,
[02:30.80] they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
[02:38.55] This note was a promise that all men, yes,
[02:45.07] black men as well as white men,
[02:48.37] would be guaranteed the " unalienable Rights" of " Life,
[02:51.71] Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
[02:57.13] It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note,
[03:04.10] insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
[03:07.96] Instead of honoring this sacred obligation,
[03:14.98] America has given the Negro people a bad check,
[03:19.76] a check which has come back marked " insufficient funds."
[03:26.73]
[03:35.82] But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
[03:43.81] We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds
[03:51.07] in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so,
[03:54.57] we' ve come to cash this check,
[03:55.58] a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom
[03:57.97] and the security of justice.
[04:07.33]
[04:10.07] We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of
[04:15.78] the fierce urgency of Now.
[04:20.10] This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off
[04:26.17] or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
[04:36.01] Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.
[04:42.81] Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation
[04:49.53] to the sunlit path of racial justice.
[04:52.73] Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands
[05:03.58] of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
[05:05.07] Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God' s children.
[05:12.72]
[05:14.13] It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.
[05:20.00] This sweltering summer of the Negro' s legitimate discontent
[05:24.66] will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
[05:33.46] Nineteen sixtythree is not an end, but a beginning.
[05:38.98] And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam
[05:44.27] and will now be content will have a rude awakening
[05:48.64] if the nation returns to business as usual.
[06:06.57] And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America
[06:10.70] until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.
[06:15.36] The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations
[06:19.26] of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
[06:25.64]
[06:25.98] But there is something that I must say to my people,
[06:29.27] who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice:
[06:36.35] In the process of gaining our rightful place,
[06:41.10] we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
[06:46.25] Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom
[06:50.12] by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
[07:02.93] We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
[07:08.86] We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
[07:17.20] Again and again,
[07:18.23] we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
[07:25.07]
[07:25.39] The marvelous new militancy
[07:28.10] which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust
[07:33.61] of all white people, for many of our white brothers,
[07:39.91] as evidenced by their presence here today,
[07:41.46] have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.
[07:56.56] And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
[07:59.65]
[08:00.18] We cannot walk alone.
[08:00.96]
[08:01.44] And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
[08:02.67]
[08:12.24] We cannot turn back.
[08:13.27]
[08:15.45] There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights,
[08:19.69] " When will you be satisfied?"
[08:22.67] We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the
[08:26.53] victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
[08:31.92] We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies,
[08:37.27] heavy with the fatigue of travel,
[08:40.45] cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways
[08:43.70] and the hotels of the cities.
[08:51.06]
[08:52.26] We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi
[08:56.45] cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
[09:09.16] No, no, we are not satisfied,
[09:13.42] and we will not be satisfied until " justice rolls down like waters,
[09:18.61] and righteousness like a mighty stream."
[09:23.64]
[09:28.67] I am not unmindful that some of you have come here
[09:37.52] out of great trials and tribulations.
[09:43.08] Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.
[09:47.63] And some of you have come from areas where your quest
[09:50.88] quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution
[09:58.01] and staggered by the winds of police brutality.
[10:03.63] You have been the veterans of creative suffering.
[10:06.20] Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
[10:15.51]
[10:16.50] Go back to Mississippi,
[10:17.90] go back to Alabama,
[10:19.47] go back to South Carolina,
[10:21.06] go back to Georgia,
[10:22.48] go back to Louisiana,
[10:23.93] go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities,
[10:29.21] knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
[10:34.47]
[10:34.77] Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
[10:43.63]
[10:51.64] And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,
[10:58.70] I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
[11:06.92]
[11:07.49] I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up
[11:21.00] and live out the true meaning of its creed:
[11:22.30] " We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal."
[11:34.84]
[11:35.28] I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia,
[11:42.21] the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners
[11:48.16] will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
[11:52.02]
[11:52.29] I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,
[11:59.10] a state sweltering with the heat of injustice,
[12:06.02] sweltering with the heat of oppression,
[12:09.51] will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
[12:13.69]
[12:14.01] I have a dream that my four little children will one day
[12:22.63] live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
[12:26.63] but by the content of their character.
[12:28.79]
[12:29.11] I have a dream today!
[12:38.85]
[12:40.14] I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama,
[12:47.80] with its vicious racists,
[12:50.26] with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of " interposition"
[12:55.21] and " nullification" one day right there in Alabama little black boys
[13:00.09] and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys
[13:04.28] and white girls as sisters and brothers.
[13:06.73]
[13:07.16] I have a dream today!
[13:15.76]
[13:16.03] I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
[13:20.95] and every hill and mountain shall be made low,
[13:23.69] the rough places will be made plain,
[13:25.82] and the crooked places will be made straight
[13:28.25] " and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."?
[13:33.83] This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
[13:39.57]
[13:39.82] With this faith,
[13:41.65] we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
[13:47.04] With this faith,
[13:48.94] we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a
[13:53.61] beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith,
[13:58.27] we will be able to work together,
[14:00.10] to pray together,
[14:00.75] to struggle together,
[14:02.30] to go to jail together,
[14:04.16] to stand up for freedom together,
[14:06.40] knowing that we will be free one day.
[14:09.42]
[14:11.10] And this will be the day
[14:14.57] this will be the day when all of God' s children
[14:18.41] will be able to sing with new meaning:
[14:20.78]
[14:21.07] My country ' tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
[14:26.66]
[14:27.21] Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim' s pride,
[14:31.59]
[14:31.91] From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
[14:35.44]
[14:35.87] And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
[14:40.43]
[14:40.65] And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
[14:46.10]
[14:46.33] Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
[14:50.26]
[14:50.57] Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
[14:55.65]
[14:55.92] Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado.
[14:58.99]
[15:00.54] Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
[15:04.85]
[15:05.04] But not only that:
[15:06.31]
[15:06.64] Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
[15:11.28]
[15:11.66] Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
[15:15.71] Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
[15:21.40]
[15:21.69] From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
[15:25.08]
[15:25.65] And when this happens,
[15:30.75] when we allow freedom ring,
[15:33.85] when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,
[15:36.93] from every state and every city,
[15:40.88]
[15:41.11] we will be able to speed up that day when all of God' s children,
[15:45.63] black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,
[15:50.11] will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
[15:57.70] Free at last!
[15:58.05] free at last!
[15:59.29] Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
[16:01.02] the end
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