第一篇：奥巴马演讲之纪念马丁.路德.金
President Obama, Cabinet Secretaries, and Senior Administration Officials Honor Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.National Day of Service by Participating in Community Service Projects and Events Throughout the Country WASHINGTON, DC – To honor the Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.National Day of Service and Dr.King’s life and legacy, the President and Mrs.Obama, the Vice President and Dr.Jill Biden, Cabinet Secretaries, and other senior administration officials participated in community service projects and events throughout the country.Led by the Corporation for National and Community Service(CNCS)and the King Center, the Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.Day of Service is an opportunity for all Americans to come together to help meet the needs of their communities and make an ongoing commitment to service throughout the year.“Today, we celebrate the legacy of Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.And we should honor that legacy by acting as drum majors for service and lifting up those less fortunate – not just today, but every day,” President Obama said.“All of us can find a way to give back to our communities, to gain new skills, and to pull together, even when times are hard.That’s what Dr.King believed in, and that’s what will make our country stronger.”
Today, the First Family participated in a community service project sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service in conjunction with Big Brothers Big Sisters and Greater DC Cares at the Browne Education Campus in Washington, DC.In the evening, the President and First Lady will attend the Let Freedom Ring concert in honor of Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.at the Kennedy Center.Also today, the Vice President and Dr.Jill Biden traveled to Philadelphia, PA, to participate in the 17th annual Greater Philadelphia Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.Day of Service.The Vice President delivered remarks at Girard College in North Philadelphia.Following his remarks, the Vice President and Dr.Biden participated in a service project at Girard College.For more on the Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.National Day of Service, please visit the Corporation for National and Community Service atwww.xiexiebang.comCS: The Corporation for National and Community Service CEO Robert Velasco volunteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters of D.C.Senior staff also served at We Feed Our People, a signature event that serves hundreds of homeless District residents with a hot meals and warm clothing, and at Montgomery County Volunteer Center in Bethesda. Defense: On Thursday, January 26, Secretary Panetta will participate in the annual commemoration of Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.Day at the Pentagon.
School.Education: Secretary Duncan and his family joined the City Year service day at Dunbar High Energy: Secretary Chu hosted an event at the Department of Energy to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr.King.Secretary Chu was joined by C.T.Vivian, Vice President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Lynn Cothern, former aide to Coretta Scott King.
EPA: Administrator Jackson delivered remarks at the Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Prayer Breakfast hosted by the National Action Network in Washington, D.C.Justice: Attorney General Holder spoke at the NAACP’s Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.Day event in Columbia, S.C.On Sunday, January 15, he spoke at the Annual Utah Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., Commission Luncheon.And on Monday, January 30, he will attend the Department of Justice’s 2012 Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemorative Program. Labor: Secretary Solis delivered remarks and accepted an award at the “At the River I Stand,” the AFL-CIO’s Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.Day observance dinner in Detroit, Mich.NASA: Administrator Bolden addressed the 44th Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemorative Service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga.OPM: Director of the Office of Personnel Management John Berry delivered remarks and participated in a service project at “Hope and a Home” in Washington, D.C.Transportation: Deputy Secretary Porcari commemorated Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., Day at Tyler Elementary School in Washington, D.C.Volunteers contributed to the beautification of the school by painting slogans, murals, and math equations to help lead the Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.Day reflection activity. USAID: USAID Administrator Shah participated in the Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Library’s 25th annual “We Feed Our People” event in Washington, D.C.USUN: Ambassador Rice participated in a service event to benefit Kenilworth Elementary in Washington, D.C.VA: Secretary Shinseki volunteered at So Others Might Eat serving food to the homeless in Washington, D.C.
第二篇：奥巴马在马丁·路德金纪念碑落成典礼上的演讲
2011年10月16日美国总统奥巴马16日亲自为中国雕塑家雕塑的马丁·路德·金纪念碑揭幕，并发表演讲：“我们将超越！” 讲话呼吁美国人“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。
这座雕像的作者是中国雕塑家雷宜锌，他的方案是从全世界52个国家2000多位雕塑家的900多个方案中脱颖而出的。
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。
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.(Applause.)Thank you.(Applause.)Please be seated.An earthquake and a hurricane may have delayed this day, but this is a day that would not be denied.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.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.(Applause.)
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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.(Applause.)
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.(Applause.)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.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.(Applause.)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.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--(applause)--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.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.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.(Applause.)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.(Applause.)
第三篇：奥巴马2011在马丁·路德金纪念碑落成典礼上的演讲
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.(Applause.)Thank you.(Applause.)Please be seated.An earthquake and a hurricane may have delayed this day, but this is a day that would not be denied.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.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.(Applause.)
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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.(Applause.)
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.(Applause.)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.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.(Applause.)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.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--(applause)--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.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.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.(Applause.)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.(Applause.)
第四篇：马丁_路德_金的演讲英文原稿
马丁 路德 金的演讲英文原稿
I Have a Dream
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.So we have come here today to dramatize the shameful condition.In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check.When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a
promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the
inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “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’ve come to cash this check-a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.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 out 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, sons of former slaves and the sons of former
slave-owners, will they 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.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 snow-capped 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.”
第五篇：马丁.路德金名言
马丁路德金名言(一)
倘若人民之中有一部分被压榨受欺凌、被迫犯罪或站在社会的对立面，我们就不能拥有一个有序健康的国家。
倘若有一大群人经济落后，贫困潦倒，我们就不能真正繁荣昌盛。
当我们严阵以待，保卫我们的民主不受外国的攻击时，我们也要关注在国内赋予全体国民越来越多的公平与自由。
人本身就是目的，因为人是上帝的儿女。人不是为了国家而创造，正相反，国家是应该为人服务的。
马丁路德金名言(二)
价值观的真正改变，意味着我们必须忠诚于全世界全人类，而不是只是关注自己的国家。每个国家都要发扬超过国家界限的忠诚，这样所有的国家才能呈现出自己最好的一面。
每当有事情发生的时候，懦夫会问：“这么做，安全吗?”患得患失的人会问：“这么做，明智吗?”虚荣的人会问：“这么做，受人欢迎吗?”但是，良知只会问：“这么做，正确吗?”正义是不分国家疆界的，任何地方的不公正不平等，都是对其他地方公平公正的威胁。
你不愿为正义挺身而出的一刻，你已经死去。你不愿为真理挺身而出的一刻，你已经死去。你不愿为公正挺身而出的一刻，你已经死去。
请你们告诉自己，无论如何也都不要忘记那些生活在社会底层的穷苦的人„„如果美国不以其财富拯救穷人，最终也要下地狱。如果不把它巨大的资源和财富用来消除贫困，让所有的上帝子民都有饭吃有衣穿，美国也要下地狱。
马丁路德金名言(三)
一个伟大的国家必然是充满爱心的国家，一个不关心弱势群体的人不可能成为伟人，而一个不关心贫困人群的国家也不可能成为伟大的国家。
不抵抗和非暴力两者有很大不同。我当然不是叫你们逆来顺受„„你们要站起来，昂首挺胸，全力对抗一个万恶的体制，你们不是胆小鬼。你们要抗争，同时认识到，非暴力的斗争方式在策略上和道德上都更加有益。
还要等多久?快了，因为被践踏的真理必将重见天日。还要等多久?快了，因为没有什么谎言能够长盛不衰。
一个真正的领导者并不是追求所有人的支持和认同，而是努力去促成各方达成一致。
我们肩负使命，要为弱者说话，为默默无闻的人说话，为我们国家的受害者说话，为这个国家称之为敌人的人说话，因为没有任何出自人类之手的文件，能够使他们成为不值得我们珍惜的人!扩展阅读:马丁路德金名言英文翻译
1、In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.在最后，我们会记得的不是敌人的话语，而是朋友们的沉默。
2、I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.我提出：一个违反良心告诉他那是不公正法律的人，并且他愿意接受牢狱的刑罚，以唤起社会的良心认识到那是不正义的，实际上他表现了对法律的最高敬意。
3、The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.对一个人的终极衡量，不在于他所曾拥有的片刻安逸，而在于他处于挑战与争议的时代。
4、a man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.一个没有立场的人总是相信任何事。
5、We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.我们必须接受失望，因为它是有限的，但千万不可失去希望，因为它是无限的。
6、In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.最终，我们记得的不是我们敌人的话语，而是我们朋友的沉默。
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