I Have A Dream -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
1963 年 8 月 28 日在华盛顿特区林肯纪念堂发表
[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.
[真实性认证：以下文本版本直接从音频转录。
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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.
我很高兴今天能与你们一起参加这场将载入史册的我们国家历史上最伟大的自由示威活动。
Five score years ago, a great American , in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation .
五年前，一位伟大的美国人签署了《解放黑奴宣言》，今天我们就站在他的象征性阴影下。
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.
这项重大法令为数以百万计在不公正的火焰中煎熬的黑人奴隶带来了巨大的希望之光。
It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
这是一个欢乐的黎明，结束了他们被囚禁的漫漫长夜。
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.
但一百年后，黑人仍然没有自由。
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
一百年后，黑人的生活仍然可悲地受到种族隔离和歧视的束缚。
One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
一百年后，黑人生活在物质繁荣的汪洋大海中的一座贫困的孤岛上。
One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
一百年后，黑人仍然在美国社会的角落里苦苦挣扎，发现自己是自己土地上的流亡者。
And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
所以我们今天来到这里是为了戏剧化一个可耻的状况。
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check.
从某种意义上说，我们来到我们国家的首都是为了兑现支票。
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.
当我们共和国的缔造者写下宪法和独立宣言的宏伟文字时，他们正在签署一张每个美国人都将成为继承人的期票。
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, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
这张纸条承诺所有男人，是的，黑人和白人，都将获得“生命、自由和追求幸福”的“不可剥夺的权利”。今天很明显，就其有色人种公民而言，美国已经拖欠了这张期票。
Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
美国没有履行这一神圣的义务，而是给了黑人一张空头支票，一张被退回的支票上标有“资金不足”。
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
但我们拒绝相信正义银行已经破产。
We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
我们拒绝相信这个国家巨大的机会宝库中资金不足。
And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
因此，我们来兑现这张支票，这张支票将根据需要为我们提供自由的财富和正义的保障。
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now.
我们来到这个神圣的地方也是为了提醒美国现在的紧迫性。
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
现在不是奢侈地冷静下来或服用渐进主义镇定剂的时候。
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.
现在是兑现民主承诺的时候了。
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
现在是从黑暗荒凉的种族隔离深谷走向种族正义阳光明媚之路的时候了。
Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
现在是让我们的国家摆脱种族不平等的流沙，迈向兄弟情谊的坚固磐石的时候了。
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
现在是为上帝所有孩子实现正义的时候了。
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.
如果国家忽视当前的紧迫性，那将是致命的。
This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
黑人合法不满的闷热夏天不会过去，直到自由和平等的充满活力的秋天来临。
Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.
十九六十三不是结束，而是开始。
And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.
如果国家恢复一切如常，那些希望黑人需要发泄一下而感到满足的人将猛然醒悟。
And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.
在黑人获得公民权之前，美国不会有安宁，也不会安宁。
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
反抗的旋风将继续动摇我们国家的根基，直到正义的光明日子出现。
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.
但有一句话我必须对站在正义殿堂温暖门槛上的人民说：在争取我们应得地位的过程中，我们决不能犯下错误的行为。
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
让我们不要通过喝苦涩和仇恨之杯来满足我们对自由的渴望。
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
我们必须永远在尊严和纪律的高度上进行斗争。
We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
我们决不能让我们的创造性抗议退化为身体暴力。
Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
我们必须一次又一次地达到身体力量与灵魂力量相遇的崇高高度。
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.
席卷黑人社区的奇妙的新战斗精神绝不能导致我们对所有白人产生不信任，因为我们的许多白人兄弟，正如他们今天在这里的存在所证明的那样，已经开始意识到他们的命运与我们的命运息息相关。
And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
他们已经认识到他们的自由与我们的自由密不可分。
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
当我们行走时，我们必须发誓我们将永远前进。
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.
有人问民权人士：“你们什么时候才能满意？”只要黑人仍然是警察暴行的难以形容的恐怖的受害者，我们就永远不会满足。
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.
只要我们的身体因旅行的疲劳而无法在高速公路上的汽车旅馆和城市的旅馆里住宿，我们就永远不会满足。
** We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.
** 只要黑人的基本流动性是从较小的贫民窟到较大的贫民窟，我们就不能满足。
We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood 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.
只要我们的孩子被“仅限白人”的标语剥夺了自我和尊严，我们就永远不会满足。 ** 只要密西西比州的黑人不能投票，而纽约的黑人认为他没有什么可投票的，我们就不会满足。
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." 1
不，不，我们不满足，直到“正义如水滚滚，公义如滔滔江水”，我们才会满足。 1
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations.
我并没有忘记你们中的一些人是经历了巨大的考验和磨难才来到这里的。
Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.
你们中的一些人刚从狭窄的牢房里出来。
And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.
你们中的一些人来自那些因追求自由而遭受迫害风暴袭击并被警察暴行之风摇摇欲坠的地区。
You have been the veterans of creative suffering.
你们都是创造性苦难的老兵。
Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
继续坚信不劳而获的苦难是可以救赎的信念。
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.
回到密西西比州，回到阿拉巴马州，回到南卡罗来纳州，回到佐治亚州，回到路易斯安那州，回到我们北方城市的贫民窟和贫民窟，因为知道这种情况可以而且将会改变。
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
我今天对你们说，我的朋友们，让我们不要陷入绝望的深渊。
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
因此，即使我们面临今天和明天的困难，我仍然有一个梦想。
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
这是一个深深植根于美国梦的梦想。
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
我有一个梦想，有一天这个国家会崛起并实现其信条的真正含义：“我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的，人人生而平等。”
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.
我有一个梦想，有一天，在佐治亚州的红色山丘上，前奴隶的儿子和前奴隶主的儿子将能够坐在兄弟情谊的餐桌旁。
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.
我有一个梦想，有一天，即使是密西西比州，一个充满不公正和压迫的州，也会变成一片自由和正义的绿洲。
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.
我有一个梦想，希望我的四个孩子有一天能够生活在一个国家，人们不再根据肤色而是根据他们的性格来评判他们。
I have a dream that one day, d o wn in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there 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.
我有一个梦想，有一天，在阿拉巴马州，那里有恶毒的种族主义者，州长的嘴唇上挂满了“干预”和“废除”的字眼——有一天，在阿拉巴马州，黑人小男孩和黑人女孩将能够与白人小男孩和白人女孩手拉手，像兄弟姐妹一样。
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and 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." 2
我梦想有一天，一切山谷都将被抬高，一切丘陵将被夷为平地，崎岖的地方将变得平坦，弯曲的地方将变得笔直； “主的荣耀必显现，凡有血气的，必一同看见。” 2
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
这是我们的希望，也是我回到南方的信念。
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
有了这个信念，我们就能从绝望之山中凿出一块希望之石。
With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
有了这个信念，我们就能够把我们国家的刺耳不和声变成一首优美的兄弟情谊交响曲。
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.
有了这个信念，我们将能够一起工作，一起祈祷，一起奋斗，一起入狱，一起为自由挺身而出，因为我们知道有一天我们会获得自由。
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:
这将是一天——这将是上帝所有的孩子们都能够以新的意义歌唱的一天：
My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
我的国家是你的，甜蜜的自由之地，我为你歌唱。
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
我父辈死去的土地，朝圣者骄傲的土地， 让自由之声从每一个山腰响起！
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
如果美国要成为一个伟大的国家，这一点就必须成为现实。
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
因此，让自由之声从新罕布什尔州的巍峨山顶响起。
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
让自由之声从纽约的崇山峻岭中响起。
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
让自由之声从宾夕法尼亚州阿勒格尼山脉的高耸处响起。
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
让自由之声从白雪皑皑的科罗拉多州落基山脉响起。
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
让自由之声从加利福尼亚州优美的山坡上响起。
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
让自由之声从佐治亚州的石山响起。
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
让自由之声从田纳西州卢考特山响起。
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
让自由之声响彻密西西比州的每一座山丘。
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
让自由之声从每一个山坡响起。
And when this happens, and 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:
当这种情况发生时，当我们允许自由之声响起时，当我们让它从每一个村庄、每一个州和每一个城市响起时，我们将能够加速这一天的到来，届时所有上帝的孩子，黑人和白人，犹太人和外邦人，新教徒和天主教徒，将能够携起手来，唱着古老的黑人灵歌的歌词：
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
感谢全能的上帝，我们终于自由了！
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** = Source audio edited to exclude the content in double red asterisks in the above transcript.
** = 源音频经过编辑，以排除上述文字记录中双红色星号中的内容。
1 Amos 5:24 (rendered precisely in The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible) 2 Isaiah 40:4-5 (King James Version of the Holy Bible).
1 阿摩司书 5:24（准确译自美国标准版圣经） 2 以赛亚书 40:4-5（英王詹姆斯版圣经）。
Quotation marks are excluded from part of this moment in the text because King's rendering of Isaiah 40:4 does not precisely follow the KJV version from which he quotes (e.g., "hill" and "mountain" are reversed in the KJV).
文本中这一刻的部分内容被排除在外，因为金对以赛亚书 40:4 的翻译并不完全遵循他引用的英王钦定本版本（例如，英王钦定本中的“山”和“山”颠倒了）。
King's rendering of Isaiah 40:5, however, is precisely quoted from the KJV.
然而，金对《以赛亚书》40:5 的翻译正是引用自英皇钦定本 (KJV)。
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American Rhetoric.
美国修辞学。
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Eidenmuller.
艾登米勒。