第一篇：奥巴马为马丁路德金纪念碑揭幕演讲视频中英文
Today, nearly half a century after Martin Luther King, Jr.led the historic March on Washington for equality, tens of thousands came to the National Mall in Washington, D.C.for the Martin Luther King, Jr.Memorial Dedication.The memorial to Dr.King has been open since August, but the dedication was delayed due to Hurricane Irene.As President Obama said, though delayed, “this is a day that would not be denied.” President Obama, joined by the First Family, toured the memorial and then spoke at the dedication ceremony in honor of Dr.King's work to make his dream a reality for all.During his speech, President Obama reminded us that the progress towards Dr.King's vision has not come easily and there is still more to do to expand opportunity and make our nation more just: Our work is not done.And so on this day, in which we celebrate a man and a movement that did so much for this country, let us draw strength from those earlier struggles.First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick.Change has never been simple, or without controversy.Change depends on persistence.Change requires determination.It took a full decade before the moral guidance of Brown v.Board of Education was translated into the enforcement measures of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, but those 10 long years did not lead Dr.King to give up.He kept on pushing, he kept on speaking, he kept on marching until change finally came.And then when, even after the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act passed, African Americans still found themselves trapped in pockets of poverty across the country, Dr.King didn‟t say those laws were a failure;he didn‟t say this is too hard;he didn‟t say, let‟s settle for what we got and go home.Instead he said, let‟s take those victories and broaden our mission to achieve not just civil and political equality but also economic justice;let‟s fight for a living wage and better schools and jobs for all who are willing to work.In other words, when met with hardship, when confronting disappointment, Dr.King refused to accept what he called the “isness” of today.He kept pushing towards the “oughtness” of tomorrow.And so, as we think about all the work that we must do –-rebuilding an economy that can compete on a global stage, and fixing our schools so that every child--not just some, but every child--gets a world-class education, and making sure that our health care system is affordable and accessible to all, and that our economic system is one in which everybody gets a fair shake and everybody does their fair share, let us not be trapped by what is.We can‟t be discouraged by what is.We‟ve got to keep pushing for what ought to be, the America we ought to leave to our children, mindful that the hardships we face are nothing compared to those Dr.King and his fellow marchers faced 50 years ago, and that if we maintain our faith, in ourselves and in the possibilities of this nation, there is no challenge we cannot surmount.The President addressed some of the issues that continue to challenge our country and how Dr.King's “constant insistence on the oneness of man” encourages us to see through each other's eyes as we face disagreement: If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there;that the businessman can enter tough negotiations with his company‟s union without vilifying the right to collectively bargain.He would want us to know we can argue fiercely about the proper size and role of government without questioning each other‟s love for this country--with the knowledge that in this democracy, government is no distant object but is rather an expression of our common commitments to one another.He would call on us to assume the best in each other rather than the worst, and challenge one another in ways that ultimately heal rather than wound.Looking towards the future, President Obama spoke to the inspiration Dr.King instills in us to this day to continue his legacy: He would not give up, no matter how long it took, because in the smallest hamlets and the darkest slums, he had witnessed the highest reaches of the human spirit;because in those moments when the struggle seemed most hopeless, he had seen men and women and children conquer their fear;because he had seen hills and mountains made low and rough places made plain, and the crooked places made straight and God make a way out of no way.And that is why we honor this man –-because he had faith in us.And that is why he belongs on this Mall-– because he saw what we might become.That is why Dr.King was so quintessentially American--because for all the hardships we‟ve endured, for all our sometimes tragic history, ours is a story of optimism and achievement and constant striving that is unique upon this Earth.And that is why the rest of the world still looks to us to lead.This is a country where ordinary people find in their hearts the courage to do extraordinary things;the courage to stand up in the face of the fiercest resistance and despair and say this is wrong, and this is right;we will not settle for what the cynics tell us we have to accept and we will reach again and again, no matter the odds, for what we know is possible.That is the conviction we must carry now in our hearts.As tough as times may be, I know we will overcome.I know there are better days ahead.I know this because of the man towering over us.I know this because all he and his generation endured--we are here today in a country that dedicated a monument to that legacy.And so with our eyes on the horizon and our faith squarely placed in one another, let us keep striving;let us keep struggling;let us keep climbing toward that promised land of a nation and a world that is more fair, and more just, and more equal for every single child of God.美国东部时间１６日早晨，数千人聚集在美国首都华盛顿特区，观摩黑人民权运动领袖马丁·路德·金纪念园的开馆仪式。
作为美国第一位非洲裔总统，贝拉克·奥巴马当天在纪念园落成仪式上发表演讲。他称赞金为消除种族隔阂提供“充满希望的视野”。
美国总统奥巴马发表讲话呼吁国人“团结”，继续金心目中的梦想。他还有感而发，希望国人继续挑战华尔街的过分做法，但不要妖魔化那里所有的工作人员。
马丁·路德·金是美国历史上著名的黑人民权领袖，他为美国黑人追求平等权利献出了生命。这也为日后奥巴马成功入主白宫铺平了道路，因此纪念马丁·路德·金对黑人总统奥巴马而言，意义特殊。
奥巴马在讲话中表示，马丁·路德·金“激发了我们的良知”，并让美国“更加完美”。正因为他的努力，今天的美国才更加公平、更加自由、更加公正。
不过，奥巴马也提醒金倡导的“平等、正义与和平抵抗”也是美国如今面临的问题。“和50年前、和整个人类历史同样真实的是，那些有权势的人经常会责难要求改变的呼吁为„分裂‟，他们会说对任何现行的安排的挑战都是不明智的、不稳定的。但金博士的理解是：没有公平的和平等于没有任何和平。”
对于目前蔓延全美各地的“占领华尔街”运动，奥巴马也不忘借金来劝诫。他说：“如果金还活着，我相信他会提醒我们，那些失业工人有权挑战华尔街的过分做法，但不应妖魔化那里所有的工作人员。”
当天，第一夫人米歇尔、副总统拜登及其夫人吉尔以及马丁·路德·金的家人也参加了揭幕仪式。组织者估计有5万人参加了这次纪念活动。
马丁·路德·金雕像原定于今年8月28日揭幕，但因飓风和地震而推迟至今。该雕像位于华盛顿纪念碑、杰弗逊纪念堂、林肯纪念堂之间，仿佛与三位美国伟大的总统站在一起；它的诞生也经历了三位总统之手：克林顿立项、小布什奠基、奥巴马揭幕。
金一生积极参加并领导美国黑人民权运动，主张以非暴力手段争取平等权利。他１９６８年４月４日在田纳西州孟菲斯市遭刺杀，时年３９岁。
马丁·路德纪念园占地１．５公顷，纪念园入口处矗立一座主体雕塑，根据金的演讲取名“绝望之山”。雕塑顶部裂开的石头象征当年美国的种族分离。参观者从“山底”通道进入后，将看到一座由“希望之石”雕刻而成的金的塑像。
塑像高约９米，中国雕刻家雷宜锌用白色花岗岩为材料塑造出金的形象。金抱臂于胸前，凝视远方。
“从他的面部神态，可以看到希望。”雷宜锌说。
金的塑像矗立于华盛顿广场，位于华盛顿纪念碑、杰弗逊纪念堂和林肯纪念堂之间。
仪式主办方官员哈里·约翰逊说，塑像的位置“非同凡响”，以往纪念园的主题都是纪念战争或某位总统，而这是第一座为纪念民权领袖所立的塑像。
第二篇：马丁路德金演讲励志演讲(中英文)
马丁路德金演讲稿 我有一个梦想（英文版）
演讲时间：1963年8月27日
演讲地点：林肯纪念堂前
I have a dream
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.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.So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.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.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, 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, live up to 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 children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color if 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 governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down 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 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.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.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 pilgrims’ pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring.And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.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 snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slops 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!When we let 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!”
马丁路德金演讲励志演讲
我有一个梦想
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。它的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，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。
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，曾早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，回到南卡罗莱纳去，回到佐治亚去，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能自拔。
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，在佐治亚的红山上，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，而是以他们的品格优劣来评判他们的国度里生活。
我今天有一个梦想。
我梦想有一天，阿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，但有着一日，那里的黑人男孩和女孩将能够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，我们将能从绝望之岭劈出一块希望之石。有了这个信念，我们将能把这个国家刺耳的争吵声，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冈。”
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！让自由之声从科罗拉多州冰雪覆盖的落矶山响起来！让自由之声从加利福尼亚州蜿蜒的群峰响起来！不仅如此，还要让自由之声从佐治亚州的石岭响起来！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州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，犹太人和非犹太人，新教徒和天主教徒，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！”
第三篇：奥巴马柏林演讲中英文对照视频（范文模版）
奥巴马柏林演讲中英文对照视频
BARACK OBAMA BERLIN SPEECH: 'A WORLD THAT STANDS AS ONE' THURS JULY 24 2008 12:58:02 Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany.Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today.Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before.Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen--a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city.The journey that led me here is improbable.My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya.His father--my grandfather--was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning--his dream--required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West.And so he wrote letter after letter to universities all across America until somebody, somewhere answered his prayer for a better life.That is why I'm here.And you are here because you too know that yearning.This city, of all cities, knows the dream of freedom.And you know that the only reason we stand here tonight is because men and women from both of our nations came together to work, and struggle, and sacrifice for that better life.Ours is a partnership that truly began sixty years ago this summer, on the day when the first American plane touched down at Templehof.On that day, much of this continent still lay in ruin.? The rubble of this city had yet to be built into a wall.The Soviet shadow had swept across Eastern Europe, while in the West, America, Britain, and France took stock of their losses, and pondered how the world might be remade.This is where the two sides met.? And on the twenty-fourth of June, 1948, the Communists chose to blockade the western part of the city.They cut off food and supplies to more than two million Germans in an effort to extinguish the last flame of freedom in Berlin.The size of our forces was no match for the much larger Soviet Army.And yet retreat would have allowed Communism to march across Europe.Where the last war had ended, another World War could have easily begun.All that stood in the way was Berlin.? And that's when the airlift began--when the largest and most unlikely rescue in history brought food and hope to the people of this city.The odds were stacked against success.In the winter, a heavy fog filled the sky above, and many planes were forced to turn back without dropping off the needed supplies.The streets where we stand were filled with hungry families who had no comfort from the cold.But in the darkest hours, the people of Berlin kept the flame of hope burning.The people of Berlin refused to give up.And on one fall day, hundreds of thousands of Berliners came here, to the Tiergarten, and heard the city's mayor implore the world not to give up on freedom.“There is only one possibility,” he said.“For us to stand together united until this battle is won? The people of Berlin have spoken.We have done our duty, and we will keep on doing our duty.People of the world: now do your duty? People of the world, look at Berlin!” People of the world--look at Berlin!Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.Look at Berlin, where the determination of a people met the generosity of the Marshall Plan and created a German miracle;where a victory over tyranny gave rise to NATO, the greatest alliance ever formed to defend our common security.Look at Berlin, where the bullet holes in the buildings and the somber stones and pillars near the Brandenburg Gate insist that we never forget our common humanity.? People of the world--look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.?? Sixty years after the airlift, we are called upon again.History has led us to a new crossroad, with new promise and new peril.When you, the German people, tore down that wall--a wall that divided East and West;freedom and tyranny;fear and hope--walls came tumbling down around the world.From Kiev to Cape Town, prison camps were closed, and the doors of democracy were opened.Markets opened too, and the spread of information and technology reduced barriers to opportunity and prosperity.While the 20th century taught us that we share a common destiny, the 21st has revealed a world more intertwined than at any time in human history.The fall of the Berlin Wall brought new hope.But that very closeness has given rise to new dangers--dangers that cannot be contained within the borders of a country or by the distance of an ocean.?? The terrorists of September 11th plotted in Hamburg and trained in Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands from all over the globe on American soil.? As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris.The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin.The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.The genocide in Darfur shames the conscience of us all.In this new world, such dangerous currents have swept along faster than our efforts to contain them.That is why we cannot afford to be divided.No one nation, no matter how large or powerful, can defeat such challenges alone.None of us can deny these threats, or escape responsibility in meeting them.Yet, in the absence of Soviet tanks and a terrible wall, it has become easy to forget this truth.And if we're honest with each other, we know that sometimes, on both sides of the Atlantic, we have drifted apart, and forgotten our shared destiny.In Europe, the view that America is part of what has gone wrong in our world, rather than a force to help make it right, has become all too common.In America, there are voices that deride and deny the importance of Europe's role in our security and our future.Both views miss the truth--that Europeans today are bearing new burdens and taking more responsibility in critical parts of the world;and that just as American bases built in the last century still help to defend the security of this continent, so does our country still sacrifice greatly for freedom around the globe.Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe.No doubt, there will be differences in the future.But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together.A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden.In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more--not less.Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice;it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.? That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another.The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand.The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand.The walls between races and tribes;natives and immigrants;Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand.These now are the walls we must tear down.? We know they have fallen before.After centuries of strife, the people of Europe have formed a Union of promise and prosperity.Here, at the base of a column built to mark victory in war, we meet in the center of a Europe at peace.Not only have walls come down in Berlin, but they have come down in Belfast, where Protestant and Catholic found a way to live together;in the Balkans, where our Atlantic alliance ended wars and brought savage war criminals to justice;and in South Africa, where the struggle of a courageous people defeated apartheid.? So history reminds us that walls can be torn down.But the task is never easy.True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice.They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy;of progress and peace.They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.? That is why America cannot turn inward.That is why Europe cannot turn inward.America has no better partner than Europe.Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us across the Atlantic.Now is the time to join together, through constant cooperation, strong institutions, shared sacrifice, and a global commitment to progress, to meet the challenges of the 21st century.It was this spirit that led airlift planes to appear in the sky above our heads, and people to assemble where we stand today.And this is the moment when our nations--and all nations--must summon that spirit anew.This is the moment when we must defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it.This threat is real and we cannot shrink from our responsibility to combat it.If we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman;in London and Bali;in Washington and New York.If we could win a battle of ideas against the communists, we can stand with the vast majority of Muslims who reject the extremism that leads to hate instead of hope.This is the moment when we must renew our resolve to rout the terrorists who threaten our security in Afghanistan, and the traffickers who sell drugs on your streets.No one welcomes war.I recognize the enormous difficulties in Afghanistan.But my country and yours have a stake in seeing that NATO's first mission beyond Europe's borders is a success.For the people of Afghanistan, and for our shared security, the work must be done.America cannot do this alone.The Afghan people need our troops and your troops;our support and your support to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda, to develop their economy, and to help them rebuild their nation.We have too much at stake to turn back now.This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons.The two superpowers that faced each other across the wall of this city came too close too often to destroying all we have built and all that we love.With that wall gone, we need not stand idly by and watch the further spread of the deadly atom.It is time to secure all loose nuclear materials;to stop the spread of nuclear weapons;and to reduce the arsenals from another era.This is the moment to begin the work of seeking the peace of a world without nuclear weapons.This is the moment when every nation in Europe must have the chance to choose its own tomorrow free from the shadows of yesterday.In this century, we need a strong European Union that deepens the security and prosperity of this continent, while extending a hand abroad.In this century--in this city of all cities--we must reject the Cold War mind-set of the past, and resolve to work with Russia when we can, to stand up for our values when we must, and to seek a partnership that extends across this entire continent.This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably.Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development.But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.Together, we must forge trade that truly rewards the work that creates wealth, with meaningful protections for our people and our planet.This is the moment for trade that is free and fair for all.This is the moment we must help answer the call for a new dawn in the Middle East.My country must stand with yours and with Europe in sending a direct message to Iran that it must abandon its nuclear ambitions.We must support the Lebanese who have marched and bled for democracy, and the Israelis and Palestinians who seek a secure and lasting peace.And despite past differences, this is the moment when the world should support the millions of Iraqis who seek to rebuild their lives, even as we pass responsibility to the Iraqi government and finally bring this war to a close.This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet.Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.Let us resolve that all nations--including my own--will act with the same seriousness of purpose as has your nation, and reduce the carbon we send into our atmosphere.This is the moment to give our children back their future.This is the moment to stand as one.And this is the moment when we must give hope to those left behind in a globalized world.We must remember that the Cold War born in this city was not a battle for land or treasure.Sixty years ago, the planes that flew over Berlin did not drop bombs;instead they delivered food, and coal, and candy to grateful children.And in that show of solidarity, those pilots won more than a military victory.They won hearts and minds;love and loyalty and trust--not just from the people in this city, but from all those who heard the story of what they did here.Now the world will watch and remember what we do here--what we do with this moment.Will we extend our hand to the people in the forgotten corners of this world who yearn for lives marked by dignity and opportunity;by security and justice? Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty, shelter the refugee in Chad, and banish the scourge of AIDS in our time? Will we stand for the human rights of the dissident in Burma, the blogger in Iran, or the voter in Zimbabwe? Will we give meaning to the words “never again” in Darfur?? Will we acknowledge that there is no more powerful example than the one each of our nations projects to the world? Will we reject torture and stand for the rule of law? Will we welcome immigrants from different lands, and shun discrimination against those who don't look like us or worship like we do, and keep the promise of equality and opportunity for all of our people? People of Berlin--people of the world--this is our moment.This is our time.? I know my country has not perfected itself.At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people.We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.But I also know how much I love America.I know that for more than two centuries, we have strived--at great cost and great sacrifice--to form a more perfect union;to seek, with other nations, a more hopeful world.Our allegiance has never been to any particular tribe or kingdom--indeed, every language is spoken in our country;every culture has left its imprint on ours;every point of view is expressed in our public squares.What has always united us--what has always driven our people;what drew my father to America's shores--is a set of ideals that speak to aspirations shared by all people: that we can live free from fear and free from want;that we can speak our minds and assemble with whomever we choose and worship as we please.Those are the aspirations that joined the fates of all nations in this city.Those aspirations are bigger than anything that drives us apart.It is because of those aspirations that the airlift began.It is because of those aspirations that all free people--everywhere--became citizens of Berlin.It is in pursuit of those aspirations that a new generation--our generation--must make our mark on history.People of Berlin--and people of the world--the scale of our challenge is great.The road ahead will be long.But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom.We are a people of improbable hope.Let us build on our common history, and seize our common destiny, and once again engage in that noble struggle to bring justice and peace to our world.奥巴马柏林演讲全文 奥巴马演讲全文 奥巴马柏林演讲
感谢柏林市民和德国人民。感谢默克尔总理和外长施泰因迈尔今天早些时候对我的欢迎。感谢市长沃维莱特、柏林参议院和柏林警察，感谢你们给我热情的欢迎。我来柏林之前，已有很多我的同胞来过。今晚，我在这里发言，并不是作为总统候选人，而是作为一名值得骄傲的美国公民和一名世界公民的身份。
我知道我并不像以前在这个伟大的城市曾经演讲过的美国人一样。引导我到达这里的征途是神奇的。我的母亲出生在美国的中心，但我父亲在肯尼亚长大，从小放牧山羊。他的父亲——我的祖父是一名英国人的厨师。
在冷战高峰的时期，我父亲决定，和其他许多被遗忘在世界各个角落的人们一样，他渴望和梦想着西方承诺给予世人的自由和机会。所以他给全美各地所有大学写信，直到在某地的一个人给了他答复：祈祷一个更美好的生活。
这就是我在这里的原因。和你们也知道这种向往而在这里一样。这座城市连同它所有的市民，也都深知自由的梦想。你也知道今晚我们站在在这里唯一原因，那就是因为从我们各自的国家走到一起来的男人和女人，都为了更美好的生活工作、奋斗和牺牲。
真正开始我们的伙伴关系是在六十年前的一个夏天，当时美国第一架飞机降落在这里。那一天，这里的大部分地区仍是废墟。城市中的瓦砾还没有被建成柏林墙。而苏联已席卷东欧，在西方，美国、英国、法国评估了他们的损失，并思考如何在世界上开展重建工作。
就是在这里双方开始了会晤。1948年6月，苏联选择封锁柏林西部。超过两百万德国人的食物和日用品供应被切断。
过去的战争已经结束，而另一场世界大战，很容易的被点燃了。能阻挡这个的就是柏林。
那是当空运开始——历史上最大和最不可能拯救给这个城市的人民带来了的食物和希望。然而可怕的几率阻碍了我们的成功。在冬季，大雾弥漫在城市上空，许多飞机被迫返航并无法投掷食品和日用品。在我们站立的街道上，充满了饥饿的家庭，他们不曾在冷战中舒适过。
但即使在这最黑暗的时刻，柏林全体市民希望的火焰依旧熊熊燃烧。柏林人民拒绝放弃。在一个秋天里，数以十万计的柏林人来到这里，聆听他们的市长蒂尔加腾，向世界恳请不要放弃自由的演讲。他说，“世界上只有一种可能性”，“我们团结一致站在一起直到胜利，柏林人民已经向世界宣誓过，我们尽了我们应尽的职责，而且我们将继续我们的职责责任。世界人民的：履行职责„世界人民，注视着柏林吧！”
世界人民 请注视柏林！
注视柏林，在这里，两个国家经历了三年的战争，德国人与美国人才认识到应该携手合作、相互信任。
注视柏林，在这里，满怀决心的人们看到了慷慨的马歇尔计划，并创造了德国的奇迹。注视柏林，在这里，建筑物上密布的弹孔和勃兰登堡门附近的支柱提醒我们，永远不要忘记我们共有的人性。
世界人民，注视柏林，这这里，柏林墙到了，大陆走到一起，历史证明，没有比这更大的挑战了。
在空运之后六十年，我们再次呼吁。历史已经将我们引领到一个新的十字路口、新的承诺和新的危险。当您，德国人，拆除这堵墙；恐惧和希望——全世界的“柏林墙”都倒塌了。民主门窗被打开，市场也开放了，信息和技术的传播减少了贸易壁垒创造着机会和繁荣。20世纪告诉我们，我们有着共同的命运，21 世纪昭示我们，世界将变得比人类历史上过去的任何时代更加密不可分。
这就是为什么美国不能改变方向的原因。这就是为什么欧洲不能改变方向的原因。除了欧洲，美国恐怕没有更好的合作伙伴。现在是我们横渡大西洋、建立新的桥梁，让我们成为强大的整体的伟大时刻。现在是我们联合起来、不断合作、共同牺牲，促进全球的进展，迎接二十一世纪挑战的伟大时刻。这是承载这一精神，才有了今天飞机横穿上空，我们的领袖和人民站在这里。这是我们的国家和所有国家必须重新召唤这种精神的时刻。
这是我们必须战胜恐怖和消灭极端主义的时候了。这一威胁是真实的，我们应该毫不犹疑，我们的责任就是要消灭它。我们可以建立一个新的全球伙伴关系，以拆除已建立在马德里和安曼、在伦敦和巴厘、华盛顿和纽约的恐怖网络。我们可以拒绝导致仇恨的极端主义。
这是我们必须重申我们的决心的时候了，我们要击溃威胁我们在阿富汗安全的恐怖分子。没有人欢迎战争。我承认在阿富汗我们面临着巨大的困难。但我的国家和你们有着惺惺相惜的关系。为了阿富汗人民和我们共同的安全，这项工作我们义不容辞。但美国孤军奋战是不能成功的。阿富汗人民需要我们的部队和你们的部队、我们的支持和你们的支持，来打败塔利班和基地组织，发展他们的经济，并帮助他们重建家园。现在我们有太多的困难要去克服。
这是我们必须重申的目标——一个没有核武器的世界——的时候了。两个超级大国，面对这面墙，却是要摧毁我们已建设的和我们所爱的。这堵墙消失后，我们不能袖手旁观和默默观赏致命核子的进一步传播。这是我们确保核材料的流失是安全的和防止核武器扩散并减少库存的时候了。这是我们开始工作并寻求一个没有核武器的和平世界的时刻了。
这是欧洲每一个国家有机会选择从昨天的阴影中释放出来的时候了。在这个世纪，我们需要一个强大的欧洲联盟，深化安全和富强欧洲。在这个世纪，在这个城市的所有市民，我们必须摒弃冷战思维，并决心与俄罗斯合作，我们可以为我们的价值观而战斗，我们必须寻求合作伙伴关系将我们的利益扩展到整个大陆。
这是我们必须建立财富、开放市场、创造和分享更公平的利益的时候了。贸易一直是我们增长和全球发展的一块基石。但如果它有利于少数而不是多数，我们将不维持这样的增长。所以，我们必须开拓贸易、创造财富、保护我们的人民和我们的星球。这是享受自由和公正贸易的时刻。
这是我们必须帮助中东呼唤新的曙光的时候了。我国必须与欧洲站在一起，给伊朗发出一个明确和直接信号：它必须放弃自己的核野心。支持以色列人和巴勒斯坦人寻求一个持久和安全的和平。尽管过去我们存在分歧，但此时，世界各国应支持伊拉克人民重建他们的家园，而且我们有责任通过和伊拉克政府合作，最终结束这场战争。这是我们必须走到一起拯救我们的星球的时候了。让我们下定决心，我们不会离开我们的孩子，上升的海平面、蔓延的饥荒和可怕的风暴蹂躏我们的土地。包括所有国家，包括我自己，用我们的行动战胜苦难，正如贵国所作的，减少排放到空气中的碳。这是给予我们的孩子他们自己的未来的时候了。
这是在一个全球化的世界里我们必须给予我们的后代以希望的时候了。我们必须紧记，冷战时期诞生的这个城市并不是一个争夺土地或财富的战场。60 年前，飞机飞越柏林没有投掷食物，但是他们运送食物、煤和糖果。在这团结方面的表现，我们这些飞行员赢得了比战场上更大的胜利和荣耀。他们赢得了人心、爱、忠诚和信任——不只是来自这个城市人民，也来自所有听到这个故事的所有人们。
现在世界将审视并铭记我们在这里所做的——这一刻我们做的。我们将向被遗忘在角落里的人民伸出我们的手，这个世界上谁不向往为标志着尊严和机会的生活、向往着安全和正义呢？我们会把孟加拉国的儿童、乍得的难民从贫困中解救出来吗？
我们将拒绝酷刑和为法治而战吗？我们将欢迎从不同的土地而来的移民、不歧视他们和信守对我们所有人的平等和机会的承诺吗？
柏林人民；世界人民；这是我们的时刻。
这是我们的时代。
我知道我的国家并不是很完善。有时，我们为我们所有的人民而信守承诺的自由和平等而奋斗。我们也犯了很多错误，有时我们在世界各地的行动没有实现我们最好的意图。但我也知道我是多么热爱美国。我知道，两个多世纪以来，我们已付出巨大的代价和巨大的牺牲，形成一个更加完善的联盟；寻求与其他国家，建设一个更有希望的世界。我们的忠诚从来没有根植在任何特定的部落或国家，事实上，在我们的国家，每一种语言都可以被讲，每一种文化都已脱离我们的印记；每一种观点都可以在我们的广场被宣扬。这正是团结我们、驱使我们、促使我的父亲到达美国的信念，一套理想的信念——所有的人共享：我们可以生活在免于恐惧、免于自由匮乏的国度；我们可以选择和崇拜，因为我们愿意。
这些都是在这个城市所有国民愿望加入其中的愿望。这些愿望是比任何驱动都要强大的。这是所有自由的人诉求成为柏林公民的愿望。这是我们新的一代-我们这一代人的追求：一定要成功。
柏林人民和世界人民，我们的挑战是巨大的。前进的道路将是漫长的。但我来这里是要说我们要继承为自由而斗争。放眼未来，答案在我们的心中，让我们铭记这段历史，回应我们的命运，重塑世界。
第四篇：奥巴马演讲视频
奥巴马竞选演讲及相关视频下载（用迅雷可以下）奥巴马演讲视频下载，来自官网的视频，很清晰，一般都是二十分钟左右的视频。我保证用迅雷能下。视频格式是 m4v,mov.我刚用迅雷刚才下了五个视频，速度感觉还可以（比youtube解析的后下载的速度快多了）视频在暴风影音和real player上每个都可以播放，我都试过了。这些视频不是非常多。但都是奥巴马经典的演讲视频，还有奥巴马在大选过程相关的一些视频,比如grassroots organizing类的视频，和the campaign trail的一些视频。
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奥巴马就职演讲视频和音频下载（1月20日），下载地址
以下的演讲视频直接点击就可以下载了 1 2 new hampshire primary speech: yes we can 3 forging a new future for american 4 south carolina victory speech 5 amrican stories（美国公民讲述自己的故事来支持推选奥巴马）6 democratic national convention 2004 keynote(2004.7.27,查看中英文对照文稿)7 biden vp announcement 8 orlando, fla vfw address 9 yes we can, nashua nh 10 boston students（波士顿大学学生和奥巴马电话交谈，会见奥巴马，还有他们对大选的一些看法）
bronx students（一所中学的学生谈论大选，并各自发表自己的演讲yes we/i can).........更多奥巴马竞选相关视频下载
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奥巴马获胜芝加哥演讲音频下载: 地址1:请点击下载(mp3 download)地址2:下载地址mp3 download)点击下载歌词 这里有个60minutes 访问奥巴马的节目，是奥巴马当选后第一次采访。在线看，如果网速比较快，看得会很流畅。等我找到下载地址再发出来。文稿在这里，mpeg视频剪辑下载（和音频差不多，才18m)更多。。。
奥巴马2004年民主党会议演讲“无畏的希望”中英文对照稿
奥巴马党团会议举获胜演讲视频和中英文对照文稿
奥巴马费城演讲视频和中英文对照文稿a more perfect union 奥巴马费城演讲视频和中英文对照文稿obama’s speech on race 奥巴马柏林演讲中英文字幕视频和中英文稿a world that stands as one 奥巴马在父亲节讲话 中英文对照稿
希拉里退选演讲视频和中英文文稿 麦凯恩承认竞选失败演讲视频和中英文文稿翻译
奥巴马《无畏的希望》，《父亲的梦想》中英文版下载
奥巴马竞选演讲及相关视频下载篇二：从奥巴马的演讲里学英语
从奥巴马的演讲中学英语
今天凯撒国际的小编为大家整理了奥巴马的演讲片段——为什
么要学习？ 他气势恢宏的演讲，语言有说服力和感染力。对学生们 很有启发。我们以后该如何学习那种气场，用什么样的语言去触动、秒杀台下无数听众！更重要的一点是对我们的英语作文有很大的帮助，好好感悟这段英文演讲吧！i want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.every single one of you has something that youre good at.every single one of you has something to offer.and you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is.thats the opportunity an education can provide.maybe you could be a great writer--maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper--but you might not know it until you write that english paper--that english class paper thats assigned to you.maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor--maybe even good--but you might not know it until you do your project for your science class.maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a supreme court justice--but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.and no matter what you want to do with your life, i guarantee that youll need an education to do it.you want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? you want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? youre going to need a good education for every single one of those careers.you cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job.youve got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.and this isnt just important for your own life and your own future.what you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country.the future of america depends on you.what youre learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.youll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and aids, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment.youll need the insights and critical-thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free.youll need the creativity and ingenuity new jobs and boost our economy.we need every single one of you to develop your talents and your skills and your intellect so you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems.if you dont do that--if you quit on school--youre not just quitting on yourself, youre quitting on your country.希望同学们以后自己去网上查找奥巴马演讲视频后mp3录音，认真学习英语演讲，最重要的是，这对你的英语作文有深远的影响！最好的英文演讲稿能成就最好的英语作文！篇三：奥巴马获胜演讲视频与中英文稿
奥巴马获胜演讲视频与中英文稿 还有奥巴马的几次重要演讲的英语文稿 2008-11-06 20:03(barack obama chicago speech 44th president-elect)barack obama(柯西)hello, chicago.if there is anyone out there who still doubts that america is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.its the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.its the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, democrat and republican, black, white, hispanic, asian, native american, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled.americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.we are, and always will be, the united states of america.its the answer that led those whove been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.a little bit earlier this evening, i received an extraordinarily gracious call from sen.mccain.sen.mccain fought long and hard in this campaign.and hes fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves.he has endured sacrifices for america that most of us cannot begin to imagine.we are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.i congratulate him;i congratulate gov.palin for all that theyve achieved.and i look forward to working with them to renew this nations promise in the months ahead.i want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of scranton and rode with on the train home to delaware, the vice president-elect of the united states, joe biden.and i would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nations next first lady michelle obama.and while shes no longer with us, i know my grandmothers watching, along with the family that made me who i am.i miss them tonight.i know that my debt to them is beyond measure.to my sister maya, my sister alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that youve given me.i am grateful to them.and to my campaign manager, david plouffe, the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best--the best political campaign, i think, in the history of the united states of america.to my chief strategist david axelrod whos been a partner with me every step of the way.to the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics you made this happen, and i am forever grateful for what youve sacrificed to get it done.but above all, i will never forget who this victory truly belongs to.it belongs to you.it belongs to you.i was never the likeliest candidate for this office.we didnt start with much money or many endorsements.our campaign was not hatched in the halls of washington.it began in the backyards of des moines and the living rooms of concord and the front porches of charleston.it was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.it grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generations apathy who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.it drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the earth.this is your victory.and i know you didnt do this just to win an election.and i know you didnt do it for me.you did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead.for even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime--two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave americans waking up in the deserts of iraq and the mountains of afghanistan to risk their lives for us.there are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how theyll make the mortgage or pay their doctors bills or save enough for their childs college education.theres new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.the road ahead will be long.our climb will be steep.we may not get there in one year or even in one term.but, america, i have never been more hopeful than i am tonight that we will get there.i promise you, we as a people will get there.there will be setbacks and false starts.there are many who wont agree with every decision or policy i make as president.and we know the government cant solve every problem.but i will always be honest with you about the challenges we face.i will listen to you, especially when we disagree.and, above all, i will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way its been done in america for 221 years--block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.what began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night.this victory alone is not the change we seek.it is only the chance for us to make that change.and that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.it cant happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.so let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of篇四：奥巴马竞选演讲及相关视频下载(迅雷可下)奥巴马就职演讲视频和音频下载（1月20日），下载地址
以下的演讲视频直接点击就可以下载了 1 a more perfect union 2 new hampshire primary speech: yes we can 3 forging a new future for american 4 south carolina victory speech 5 amrican stories（美国公民讲述自己的故事来支持推选奥巴马）6 democratic national convention 2004 keynote(2004.7.27,查看中英文对照文稿)7 biden vp announcement 8 orlando, fla vfw address 9 yes we can, nashua nh 10 boston students（波士顿大学学生和奥巴马电话交谈，会见奥巴马，还有他们对大选的一些看法）
bronx students（一所中学的学生谈论大选，并各自发表自己的演讲yes we/i can)
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奥巴马获胜芝加哥演讲音频下载: 地址1:请点击下载(mp3 download)地址2:下载地址mp3 download)点击下载歌词
这里有个60minutes 访问奥巴马的节目，是奥巴马当选后第一次采访。在线看，如果网速比较快，看得会很流畅。等我找到下载地址再发出来。文稿在这里，mpeg视频剪辑下载（和音频差不多，才18m)更多
奥巴马2004年民主党会议演讲“无畏的希望”中英文对照稿 奥巴马党团会议举获胜演讲视频和中英文对照文稿
奥巴马费城演讲视频和中英文对照文稿obama’s speech on race 奥巴马柏林演讲中英文字幕视频和中英文稿a world that stands as one 奥巴马在父亲节讲话 中英文对照稿
希拉里退选演讲视频和中英文文稿
麦凯恩承认竞选失败演讲视频和中英文文稿翻译
奥巴马《无畏的希望》，《父亲的梦想》中英文版下载
奥巴马竞选演讲及相关视频下载（用迅雷可以下）奥巴马所有英文演讲稿（有对应的视频观看）
美国总统竞选辩论三场完整辩论视频音频，英文文稿下载
观看经典两分钟，奥巴马如何回击麦凯恩视频
奥巴马和麦凯恩经济，教育，能源环境，种族等各方面政策的对比（英文）奥巴马《无畏的希望》《我父亲的梦想》在线阅读（中英文版）篇五：2013奥巴马第二任期连任就职演讲视频及演讲稿(双语)当地时间21日中午，第57届美国总统就职典礼在首都华盛顿国会大厦西侧举行，奥巴马总统发表连任就职演讲，呼吁美国民众团结一致，抓住机遇。80多万观礼的嘉宾从全美各地蜂拥而至，他们都期盼着能够见证这一历史性的时刻，同时对奥巴马总统的第二任期也充满了期待。
vice president biden, mr.chief justice, members of the united states congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: 副总统拜登、首席法官、美国国会议员、尊敬的客人和美国同胞们： each time we gather to inaugurate a president we bear witness to the enduring strength of our constitution.we affirm the promise of our democracy.we recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names.what makes us exceptionalis our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: 每次聚在一起举行总统就职仪式时，我们总能见证到宪法经久不衰的力量。我们肯定民主的承诺。我们回忆起，团结这个国家的力量不是皮肤的颜色、所信奉的教条或名字的起源。让我们与众不同、成为美国人的是源自对一个理念的效忠，它早在2个多世纪前就在一份宣言中有过明确表述：
“we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal;that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights;that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“我们认为这一真理是不言自明的：人人生而平等，并由造物主赋予了某些不可转让的权利，其中包括生命、自由和追求幸福的权利。” today we continue a never-ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.for history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they’ve never been self-executing;that while freedom is a gift from god, it must be secured by his people here on earth.(applause.)the patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob.they gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.今天，为了缩小这些文字意义与当今现实间的差距，我们将继续这场没有尽头的旅程。因为历史告诉我们，虽然这些真理也许不言自明，但它们从不会自动生效；虽然自由是来自上帝的礼物，但它必须由地球上的子民们去争取。1776年的爱国者们不是为了用少数人的特权或乌合之众的法则取代国王的暴政而战斗。他们给予我们的是一个共和国、一个民有、民治、民享的政府，并委托每一代人去捍卫我们的建国理念。and for more than two hundred years, we have.两百多年来，我们一直如此。through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free.we made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward together.通过皮鞭抽打和刀剑割划流出的鲜血，我们学到，没有哪个建立在自由平等原则上的联盟能够容忍半奴隶半自由的状态。我们重塑自我，并发誓一同前进。我们一同决定，一个现代经济体需要铁路和高速路来促进旅游和商务，需要学校和大学来培训我们的工人。
我们一同发现，一个自由市场只有当规则能确保公平竞争时才能够繁荣。together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.我们一同下定决定，一个伟大的国家必须照顾弱者，并保护他们不受到生活最恶劣的伤害和不幸。
through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills can be cured through government alone.our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, these are constants in our character.通过以上所有，我们从未放弃过对中央集权的质疑，也未曾对光靠政府就能解决所有社会弊病的幻想有过屈服。对首创精神和进取精神的歌颂、对勤劳和责任的坚持已经成为我们性格中无法改变的一部分。but we have always understood that when times change, so must we;that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges;that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.for the american people can no more meet the 但是我们一直懂得，当时代改变时，我们也必须做出相应的改变：忠于建国原则需要我们以新的方式应对新的挑战；保证个人自由最终需要我们采取集体行动。因为没有哪个美国人能独自满足当今世界的需求，就像美国士兵无法独自迎战拥有枪弹和民兵的法西斯主义。没有哪一个人能为我们孩子的未来培训所有的数学和理科教师，或是通过修路联网和建立研究型实验室给我们海岸带来更多就业和商业活动。作为一个国家、一个民族，我们现在比以往任何时候都有必要团结一致，共同去做这些事。this generation of americans has been tested by crises that steeled our resolve and proved our resilience.a decade of war is now ending.(applause.)an economic recovery has begun.(applause.)america’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive;diversity and openness;an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention.my fellow americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it-so long as we seize it together.(applause.)这代美国人经受过多次危机的考验，锻炼了我们的意志，证明了我们的韧性。十年的战争即将结束，经济已经开始复苏。美国有着无限可能，因为我们拥有这个无国界的世界所要求的一切品质：青春和动力，多样性和开放性，掌控风险无穷的能力和进行彻底改造的天赋。我亲爱的美国同胞们，我们为此刻而生，只要我们能一同抓住这个机遇，我们就能把它紧紧抓牢。
for we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.(applause.)we believe that america’s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class.we know that america thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work;when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship.we are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an american;she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of god but also in our own.(applause.)因为，作为人民的我们知道，只有少数人过得好，而越来越多人生活无法好转时，我们的国家就无法成功。我们相信，美国的繁荣必须建立在一个愈加庞大的中产阶级宽阔的肩膀上。我们知道，只有当每个人都能在自己的工作中找到独立和自豪，只有当诚实劳动所换得的工资能将家人从困苦的边缘解救出来时，美国才能繁荣。
第五篇：奥巴马纪念马丁路德金演讲原文及汉语翻译
Thank you very much.Thank you.Please be seated.An earthquake and a hurricane may have delayed this day, but this is a day that would not be denied.非常感谢大家。谢谢大家。请就座。虽然这个日子可能因地震和飓风来袭而推迟，但这一天不可阻挡。
For this day, we celebrate Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.'s return to the National Mall.In this place, he will stand for all time, among monuments to those who fathered this nation and those who defended it;a black preacher with no official rank or title who somehow gave voice to our deepest dreams and our most lasting ideals, a man who stirred our conscience and thereby helped make our union more perfect.在这一天，我们欢庆马丁·路德·金博士重返国家大草坪。在这个地方，他将永远矗立在纪念这个国家的缔造者和捍卫者的丰碑中间；一位没有正式官衔或名号、却能说出我们心底最深处的梦想和我们持久不变的理想的黑人牧师，一位唤醒了我们的良知、从而帮助我们的合众国变得更加完美的人。
And Dr.King would be the first to remind us that this memorial is not for him alone.The movement of which he was a part depended on an entire generation of leaders.Many are here today, and for their service and their sacrifice, we owe them our everlasting gratitude.This is a monument to your collective achievement.而金博士会首先提醒我们，这座纪念碑并不属于他一个人。他参加过的那场运动所依靠的是整整一代领袖人物。其中很多人今天在座，我们对他们的服务和奉献永远感激不尽。这是一座纪念你们的集体业绩的丰碑。
Some giants of the civil rights movement –-like Rosa Parks and Dorothy Height, Benjamin Hooks, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth –-they've been taken from us these past few years.This monument attests to their strength and their courage, and while we miss them dearly, we know they rest in a better place.民权运动的几位巨人——如罗莎·帕克斯（Rosa Parks）、多萝西·海特（Dorothy Height）、本杰明·胡克斯（Benjamin Hooks）和弗雷德•沙特尔斯沃思牧师（Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth）等人——几年来相继离开了我们。这座纪念碑是他们的力量和勇气的见证，我们深深地怀念他们，但我们也知道他们长眠在一个更好的地方。
And finally, there are the multitudes of men and women whose names never appear in the history books –-those who marched and those who sang, those who sat in and those who stood firm, those who organized and those who mobilized –-all those men and women who through countless acts of quiet heroism helped bring about changes few thought were even possible.“By the thousands,” said Dr.King, “faceless, anonymous, relentless young people, black and white…have taken our whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.” To those men and women, to those foot soldiers for justice, know that this monument is yours, as well.最后，还有名字从未被载入史册的众多男女志士——他们曾游行示威和高声唱诵，他们曾静坐抗议和岿然挺立，他们曾组织和动员民众——所有这些男女志士都通过胜不胜数的默默无闻的英勇行动帮助实现了大多数人认为不可能实现的变革。金博士曾说：―成千上万名默默无闻的、不知姓名的、坚持不懈的黑人和白人青年……带领我们整个国家回到了建国先父们在起草宪法和独立宣言的过程中深掘而成的伟大的民主源头。‖男女志士们，为正义而战的普通斗士们，这座纪念碑也属于你们。
Nearly half a century has passed since that historic March on Washington, a day when thousands upon thousands gathered for jobs and for freedom.That is what our schoolchildren remember best when they think of Dr.King-– his booming voice across this Mall, calling on America to make freedom a reality for all of God's children, prophesizing of a day when the jangling discord of our nation would be transformed into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.华盛顿那次具有历史意义的游行集会已经是近半个世纪以前的事了，那一天有成千上万的人汇集起来要求得到工作机会、要求得到自由。我们的中小学生们一想到金博士便会想到他那洪亮的声音回荡在大草坪上，呼吁美国将上帝所有子孙都享有自由变成现实，预见有一天我国喋喋不休的争执将会变成兄弟情谊的美丽合谐之音。
It is right that we honor that march, that we lift up Dr.King's “I Have a Dream” speech –-for without that shining moment, without Dr.King's glorious words, we might not have had the courage to come as far as we have.Because of that hopeful vision, because of Dr.King's moral imagination, barricades began to fall and bigotry began to fade.New doors of opportunity swung open for an entire generation.Yes, laws changed, but hearts and minds changed, as well.我们应该纪念那场游行集会，我们应该仰慕金博士《我有一个梦想》的演说——因为倘若没有那个闪光的时刻，没有金博士光辉的言词，我们可能就不会有勇气取得如此长足的进步。正是因为有了那个充满希望的构想，正是因为有金博士的道义憧憬，屏障才开始倒塌，偏见才开始消退。新的机遇之门才向整整一代人敞开。的确，法律改变了，但人心和头脑也改变了。
Look at the faces here around you, and you see an America that is more fair and more free and more just than the one Dr.King addressed that day.We are right to savor that slow but certain progress-– progress that's expressed itself in a million ways, large and small, across this nation every single day, as people of all colors and creeds live together, and work together, and fight alongside one another, and learn together, and build together, and love one another.看看你身边的面孔，你会看到美国比金博士那天讲话所面对的更加公平、更加自由、更加公正。我们应该细细品味这缓慢但确实的进步——通过百万种方式体现出来的大大小小进步，每天遍及全国各地，各种肤色和信仰的人们生活在一起，工作在一起，并肩奋斗，共同学习，共同建设，彼此相爱。
So it is right for us to celebrate today Dr.King's dream and his vision of unity.And yet it is also important on this day to remind ourselves that such progress did not come easily;that Dr.King's faith was hard-won;that it sprung out of a harsh reality and some bitter disappointments.所以，我们今天应该纪念金博士的梦想和他团结的愿景。但我们也需要在这一天提醒自己，让我们记住这些进步来之不易；金博士的信念是靠奋斗树立起来；它源于严酷的现实和一些沉痛的失望。
So it is right for us to celebrate today Dr.King's dream and his vision of unity.And yet it is also important on this day to remind ourselves that such progress did not come easily;that Dr.King's faith was hard-won;that it sprung out of a harsh reality and some bitter disappointments.It is right for us to celebrate Dr.King's marvelous oratory, but it is worth remembering that progress did not come from words alone.Progress was hard.Progress was purchased through enduring the smack of billy clubs and the blast of fire hoses.It was bought with days in jail cells and nights of bomb threats.For every victory during the height of the civil rights movement, there were setbacks and there were defeats.所以，我们今天应该纪念金博士的梦想和他团结的愿景。但我们也需要在这一天提醒自己，让我们记住这些进步来之不易；金博士的信念是靠奋斗树立起来；它源于严酷的现实和一些沉痛的失望。我们应该弘扬金博士光辉的演说，但值得记住的是，进步并不仅靠言辞。进步是艰苦的。进步是通过顶住警棍的殴打和消防水龙的喷射而换取的，进步是以牢笼度日和炸弹夜袭威胁为代价而得到的。民权运动高潮中的每一个胜利，都有挫折、有失败。We forget now, but during his life, Dr.King wasn't always considered a unifying figure.Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr.King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical.He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow;by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.We know from his own testimony the doubts and the pain this caused him, and that the controversy that would swirl around his actions would last until the fateful day he died.现在我们不记得了，但在他的有生之年，金博士并不是总被视为一个团结的形象。即使后来声望显赫，甚至在获得诺贝尔和平奖后，金博士仍受到许多人诬蔑，他被称作乌合之众的煽动者、挑唆者、共产主义分子和激进分子。他甚至受到自己人的攻击，他们有的人觉得他走得太快，有的人认为他走得太慢；他们有的人认为他不应该插手越南战争或工会工人权利这样的问题。我们从他自己的证词中知道这曾给他带来疑惑和痛苦，这些围绕他行动的争议持续到他去世的最后那一天。
I raise all this because nearly 50 years after the March on Washington, our work, Dr.King's work, is not yet complete.We gather here at a moment of great challenge and great change.In the first decade of this new century, we have been tested by war and by tragedy;by an economic crisis and its aftermath that has left millions out of work, and poverty on the rise, and millions more just struggling to get by.Indeed, even before this crisis struck, we had endured a decade of rising inequality and stagnant wages.In too many troubled neighborhoods across the country, the conditions of our poorest citizens appear little changed from what existed 50 years ago-– neighborhoods with underfunded schools and broken-down slums, inadequate health care, constant violence, neighborhoods in which too many young people grow up with little hope and few prospects for the future.我讲到这一切，是因为华盛顿大游行近50年之后，我们的工作，金博士的工作，尚未完成。我们聚集在这里，正值一个充满巨大挑战和巨大变化的时刻。在这个新世纪的第一个10年，我们受到了战争和悲剧的考验；经济危机及其后果使百万民众失业，贫困在上升，还有数百万的人在挣扎度日。事实上，这场危机发生之前，我们就经历了10年日益严重的不平等和工资停滞。在全国为数太多的困难社区，我们最贫穷的公民的状况比50年前几乎没什么变化——这些地方学校资金匮乏，存在着破烂的贫民窟，没有足够的医疗服务，暴力频发，有太多的年轻人长大没有希望，未来没有前途。
Our work is not done.And so on this day, in which we celebrate a man and a movement that did so much for this country, let us draw strength from those earlier struggles.First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick.Change has never been simple, or without controversy.Change depends on persistence.Change requires determination.It took a full decade before the moral guidance of Brown v.Board of Education was translated into the enforcement measures of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, but those 10 long years did not lead Dr.King to give up.He kept on pushing, he kept on speaking, he kept on marching until change finally came.And then when, even after the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act passed, African Americans still found themselves trapped in pockets of poverty across the country, Dr.King didn't say those laws were a failure;he didn't say this is too hard;he didn't say, let's settle for what we got and go home.Instead he said, let's take those victories and broaden our mission to achieve not just civil and political equality but also economic justice;let's fight for a living wage and better schools and jobs for all who are willing to work.In other words, when met with hardship, when confronting disappointment, Dr.King refused to accept what he called the “isness” of today.He kept pushing towards the “oughtness” of tomorrow.我们的工作尚未完成。因此，在这一天，在纪念为这个国家奉献如此之多的一个人和一场运动之际，让我们从这些早期斗争中汲取力量。首先，让我们记住变化从来不会瞬间到来。变化从来不是简单或毫无争议的。改变取决于坚持不懈。改变需要决心。《布朗诉教育委员会》（Brown v.Board of Education）一案的道义指南经历了整整10年才转换为《民权法案》（Civil Rights Act）和《投票权法》（Voting Rights Act）的实施措施，但是金博士并没有因这漫长的10年而放弃。他不停地推动，他不停地疾呼，他不停地前进，直到最终实现改变。后来，甚至在《民权法案》和《投票权法》通过之后，非裔美国人仍然发现自己被困在全国各地的贫困地区，金博士没有说这是法律失败，他没有说这实在太难，他没有说，让我们满足已有的收获，就此结束。相反，他说，让我们运用这些胜利，拓宽我们的使命，不只实现公民权利和政治上的平等，而且还有经济上的公正；让我们为谋生的工资、更好的学校和为一切愿意工作的人的就业机会而奋斗。换句话说，当遇到艰难时，当面对失望时，金博士拒绝接受他称之为―如是―（isness）的今天。他不停地推动实现―应然‖（oughtness）的明天。
And so, as we think about all the work that we must do –-rebuilding an economy that can compete on a global stage, and fixing our schools so that every child--not just some, but every child--gets a world-class education, and making sure that our health care system is affordable and accessible to all, and that our economic system is one in which everybody gets a fair shake and everybody does their fair share, let us not be trapped by what is.We can't be discouraged by what is.We've got to keep pushing for what ought to be, the America we ought to leave to our children, mindful that the hardships we face are nothing compared to those Dr.King and his fellow marchers faced 50 years ago, and that if we maintain our faith, in ourselves and in the possibilities of this nation, there is no challenge we cannot surmount.And just as we draw strength from Dr.King's struggles, so must we draw inspiration from his constant insistence on the oneness of man;the belief in his words that “we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” It was that insistence, rooted in his Christian faith, that led him to tell a group of angry young protesters, “I love you as I love my own children,” even as one threw a rock that glanced off his neck.所以，在我们思考我们必须做的各项工作的时候——重建一个可以在全球舞台上竞争的经济，修整我们的学校，使每一个孩子——不仅仅是某些，而是每个孩子——获得世界一流的教育，确保我们的医疗制度让所有人负担得起、享用得上，让我们的经济体系使每个人都得到公平的利益，每个人都尽自己应尽的力量，让我们不要被困于现状。我们不能因为现状而气馁。我们必须不断推动争取应然和我们应留予子孙的美国，并且记住，我们所面对的艰辛，比起金博士和与他一起游行的同胞50年前所面对的，微不足道，如果我们保持坚定的信念，相信我们自己，相信这个国家的潜能，就没有我们不能克服的挑战。就像我们从金博士的奋斗汲取力量一样，我们也要从他对人类一体的坚定不移获得启示；他曾说―我们都罩在一张无可逃避的共同网络中，命云交织，休戚与共。‖正是那份根植于基督教信仰的坚持，使他对一群愤怒的年轻抗议者说：―我爱你们如同爱我自己的孩子，‖尽管其中一人向他投石头，险些击中他的脖颈。
It was that insistence, that belief that God resides in each of us, from the high to the low, in the oppressor and the oppressed, that convinced him that people and systems could change.It fortified his belief in non-violence.It permitted him to place his faith in a government that had fallen short of its ideals.It led him to see his charge not only as freeing black America from the shackles of discrimination, but also freeing many Americans from their own prejudices, and freeing Americans of every color from the depredations of poverty.And so at this moment, when our politics appear so sharply polarized, and faith in our institutions so greatly diminished, we need more than ever to take heed of Dr.King's teachings.He calls on us to stand in the other person's shoes;to see through their eyes;to understand their pain.He tells us that we have a duty to fight against poverty, even if we are well off;to care about the child in the decrepit school even if our own children are doing fine;to show compassion toward the immigrant family, with the knowledge that most of us are only a few generations removed from similar hardships.正是这种坚持，相信无论高低贵贱，是压迫者还是受压迫者，上帝都存在我们每个人心中，使他相信人和体制是可以改变的。它加强了他对非暴力的信念，使他对一个未能实现其理想的政府抱有信心。它使他看到自己的使命不只是将美国黑人从歧视的枷锁下解放出来，而且也是将美国人从自己的偏见中解放出来，并使各种肤色的美国人挣脱贫穷的桎梏。因此，在这个我们的政情似乎尖锐地两极化，人民对我们体制的信心大幅动摇的时刻，我们比以往更需要记取金博士的教诲。他呼吁我们设身处地为别人着想；以他们的视角看世界；理解他们的痛苦。他告诉我们有责任消除贫穷，即使我们自身富裕；关怀破败学校内的学童，即使我们的孩子安康；对移民家庭寄予同情，深知我们大多数人几代前也身处此境。
To say that we are bound together as one people, and must constantly strive to see ourselves in one another, is not to argue for a false unity that papers over our differences and ratifies an unjust status quo.As was true 50 years ago, as has been true throughout human history, those with power and privilege will often decry any call for change as “divisive.” They'll say any challenge to the existing arrangements are unwise and destabilizing.Dr.King understood that peace without justice was no peace at all;that aligning our reality with our ideals often requires the speaking of uncomfortable truths and the creative tension of non-violent protest.But he also understood that to bring about true and lasting change, there must be the possibility of reconciliation;that any social movement has to channel this tension through the spirit of love and mutuality.说我们是同是彼此关联的一个国家的人民并且必须努力彼此认同理解，并不是主张一种虚假的统一性，掩饰我们之间的差异和认可不公正的现状。就像50 年前一样，就像整个人类历史一样，当权当势者通常会将变革的呼声斥为―分裂‖。任何对现状的挑战都会被他们说成是不智之举，会造成动荡不安。金博士理解，没有正义的和平绝非和平；要使现实与我们的理想相吻合，往往就需要说出令人不快的真相，需要有非暴力抗议带来的富于创造性的压力。但是，他也理解，为了带来真实而持久的变革，必须有和解的可能；任何社会运动都必须通过爱与互协的精神来化解这种压力。
If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there;that the businessman can enter tough negotiations with his company's union without vilifying the right to collectively bargain.He would want us to know we can argue fiercely about the proper size and role of government without questioning each other's love for this country with the knowledge that in this democracy, government is no distant object but is rather an expression of our common commitments to one another.He would call on us to assume the best in each other rather than the worst, and challenge one another in ways that ultimately heal rather than wound.In the end, that's what I hope my daughters take away from this monument.I want them to come away from here with a faith in what they can accomplish when they are determined and working for a righteous cause.I want them to come away from here with a faith in other people and a faith in a benevolent God.This sculpture, massive and iconic as it is, will remind them of Dr.King's strength, but to see him only as larger than life would do a disservice to what he taught us about ourselves.He would want them to know that he had setbacks, because they will have setbacks.He would want them to know that he had doubts, because they will have doubts.He would want them to know that he was flawed, because all of us have flaws.如果他今天仍然在世，我相信他会提醒我们，失业的劳工可以质疑华尔街的贪婪过度，但不会将那里的所有雇员妖魔化；商人可以和其公司的工会进行强硬的谈判，但不会诋毁集体交易的权利。他会让我们知道，我们可以对政府的规模和作用开展激烈的争辩，但不会质疑彼此对国家的热爱，知道在民主体制中，政府并非一个遥远的物体，而是我们对彼此的共同承诺的表现形式。他会呼吁我们相信彼此最好的一面，而非最坏的一面，并且以最终能愈合而非伤害的方式挑战彼此。这是我希望我的女儿们通过这座纪念碑所领会的最终含义。我希望，当她们离开这里的时候怀有对自己的信念，即她们只要有决心去为一桩正义的事业努力，就能获得成功。我还希望，当她们离开这里的时候怀有对他人的信念，对仁慈的上帝的信念。这座宏伟的、令人崇敬的雕塑将使她们记住金博士的力量，但是，仅仅把他当作伟人敬奉就会违背他关于我们如何认识自己的教诲。他会希望她们知道他曾经遭受挫折，因为她们也会遭受挫折。他会希望她们知道他曾经有过动摇，因为她们也会经历动摇。他会希望她们知道他有缺陷，因为我们所有的人都有缺陷。
It is precisely because Dr.King was a man of flesh and blood and not a figure of stone that he inspires us so.His life, his story, tells us that change can come if you don't give up.He would not give up, no matter how long it took, because in the smallest hamlets and the darkest slums, he had witnessed the highest reaches of the human spirit;because in those moments when the struggle seemed most hopeless, he had seen men and women and children conquer their fear;because he had seen hills and mountains made low and rough places made plain, and the crooked places made straight and God make a way out of no way.It is precisely because Dr.King was a man of flesh and blood and not a figure of stone that he inspires us so.His life, his story, tells us that change can come if you don't give up.He would not give up, no matter how long it took, because in the smallest hamlets and the darkest slums, he had witnessed the highest reaches of the human spirit;because in those moments when the struggle seemed most hopeless, he had seen men and women and children conquer their fear;because he had seen hills and mountains made low and rough places made plain, and the crooked places made straight and God make a way out of no way.正因为金博士是有血有肉的一个人，而不是一座石像，他才对我们具有如此巨大的感召力。他的生活和他的故事告诉我们，只要锲而不舍，变化就会来临。他不会放弃，哪怕是旷日持久，因为在最小的村庄和最黑暗的贫民窟中，他曾经见证人类精神可及的高度；因为在那些似乎挣扎无望的时刻，他曾看到男女老少战胜自己的恐惧；还因为他曾目睹山峦丘壑被迫低头，凸凹变平原，曲路化坦途，上帝在茫茫旷野中开出路来。这就是我们纪念他的原因——因为他对我们满怀信心。这就是他属于这座广场的原因——因为他看到我们会成为什么样的人。这就是金博士代表了美国精神的原因——因为尽管我们历尽磨难，尽管我们的历史上有悲剧，但我们始终保持乐观，成就事业，积极进取，这种经历在世界上独一无二。这也是为什么世界上其他国家依然期待美国发挥领导作用的原因。在这个国家中，普通人能够靠心中的勇气做非凡之举；有勇气面对最顽固的阻力和绝望，明辨是非，坚持正义；我们不会接受那些冷眼旁观者作出的裁判，而会突破艰难险阻，为我们所知有可能成就的事业坚持努力，永不放弃。
That is the conviction we must carry now in our hearts.As tough as times may be, I know we will overcome.I know there are better days ahead.I know this because of the man towering over us.I know this because all he and his generation endured--we are here today in a country that dedicated a monument to that legacy.And so with our eyes on the horizon and our faith squarely placed in one another, let us keep striving;let us keep struggling;let us keep climbing toward that promised land of a nation and a world that is more fair, and more just, and more equal for every single child of God.Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.这就是我们现在必须怀有的信念。尽管面临一个十分困难的时期，我知道我们一定会赢得胜利。我知道好日子还在前头。我知道这一切是因为我们身边的这位巨人。我知道这一切是因为他和他那一代人的曲折经历——我们今天在这个国家中为这项业绩树立一座丰碑。因此，让我们放眼未来，让我们彼此以信心相待，奋力向前；让我们不懈拼搏，朝向那片神赐的土地持续攀登，那里是一个对上帝的每一个子民都更公平、更公正、更平等的国度与世界。谢谢各位。愿主保佑你们，愿主保佑美利坚合众国。
我有一个梦想
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.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.So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a cheque.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 in sofar as her citizens of color are concerned.Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad cheque, a cheque 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.So we have come to cash thischeque — a cheque 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 quick sands 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.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.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.They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.We cannot walk alone.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 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 “For Whites Only”.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.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.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.马丁·路德·金
I say to you today, my friends, 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, live up to 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 down 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 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.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.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 pilgrims’ pride，From every mountainside.Let freedom ring.And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.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 snowcapped 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!”
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