1988 DNC Address -- Jesse Louis Jackson
1988 Democratic National Convention Address
1988 年民主党全国代表大会演讲
delivered 19 July 1988, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta GA
1988 年 7 月 19 日交付，佐治亚州亚特兰大 Omni Coliseum
[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。]
Tonight, we pause and give praise and honor to God for being good enough to allow us to be at this place at this time.
今晚，我们停下来赞美和荣耀上帝，因为他足够好，让我们在这个时候来到这个地方。
When I look out at this convention, I see the face of America: Red, Yellow, Brown, Black and White.
当我望向大会时，我看到了美国的面孔：红色、黄色、棕色、黑色和白色。
We're all precious in God's sight -- the real rainbow coalition.
我们在上帝眼中都是宝贵的——真正的彩虹联盟。
All of us -- All of us who are here think that we are seated.
我们所有人——我们所有在座的人都认为我们已经就座了。
But we're really standing on someone's shoulders.
但我们确实是站在别人的肩膀上。
Ladies and gentlemen, Mrs. Rosa Parks -- the mother of the civil rights movement.
女士们先生们，罗莎·帕克斯夫人——民权运动之母。
[Mrs. Rosa Parks is brought to the podium.]
[太太。罗莎·帕克斯被带到讲台上。]
I want to express my deep love and appreciation for the support my family has given me over these past months.
我想对家人过去几个月给予我的支持表示深深的爱和感谢。
They have endured pain, anxiety, threat, and fear.
他们忍受着痛苦、焦虑、威胁和恐惧。
But they have been strengthened and made secure by our faith in God, in America, and in you.
但我们对上帝、对美国和对你们的信仰使它们得到了加强和保障。
Your love has protected us and made us strong.
您的爱保护了我们并使我们坚强。
To my wife Jackie, the foundation of our family; to our five children whom you met tonight; to my mother, Mrs. Helen Jackson, who is present tonight; and to our grandmother, Mrs. Matilda Burns; to my brother Chuck and his family; to my mother-in-law, Mrs. Gertrude Brown, who just last month at age 61 graduated from Hampton Institute -- a marvelous achievement.
感谢我的妻子杰基，她是我们家庭的基石；致您今晚见到的我们的五个孩子；我的母亲海伦·杰克逊夫人今晚也在场；还有我们的祖母玛蒂尔达·伯恩斯夫人；我的兄弟查克和他的家人；感谢我的岳母格特鲁德·布朗夫人，她上个月刚从汉普顿学院毕业，享年 61 岁，这是一项了不起的成就。
I offer my appreciation to Mayor Andrew Young who has provided such gracious hospitality to all of us this week.
我向安德鲁·杨市长表示感谢，他本周为我们所有人提供了如此盛情的款待。
And a special salute to President Jimmy Carter.
并特别向吉米·卡特总统致敬。
President Carter restored honor to the White House after Watergate.
卡特总统在水门事件后恢复了白宫的荣誉。
He gave many of us a special opportunity to grow.
他给了我们许多人一个特殊的成长机会。
For his kind words, for his unwavering commitment to peace in the world, and for the voters that came from his family, every member of his family, led by Billy and Amy, I offer my special thanks to the Carter family.
对于他的善意之言，对于他对世界和平坚定不移的承诺，对于来自他家人的选民，以比利和艾米为首的他家庭的每一位成员，我向卡特家族表示特别感谢。
My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won, won in my lifetime, by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.
我站在你们面前的权利和荣幸是我一生中通过无辜者的鲜血和汗水赢得的。
Twenty-four years ago, the late Fannie Lou Hamer and Aaron Henry -- who sits here tonight from Mississippi -- were locked out onto the streets in Atlantic City; the head of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
二十四年前，已故的房利美·卢·哈默 (Fannie Lou Hamer) 和今晚从密西西比州坐在这里的亚伦·亨利 (Aaron Henry) 被锁在大西洋城的街道上；密西西比自由民主党党魁。
But tonight, a Black and White delegation from Mississippi is headed by Ed Cole, a Black man from Mississippi; twenty-four years later.
但今晚，来自密西西比州的黑人和白人代表团由来自密西西比州的黑人艾德·科尔率领；二十四年后。
Many were lost in the struggle for the right to vote: Jimmy Lee Jackson, a young student, gave his life; Viola Liuzzo, a White mother from Detroit, called "nigger lover," and brains blown out at point blank range; [Michael] Schwerner, [Andrew] Goodman and [James] Chaney -- two Jews and a Black -- found in a common grave, bodies riddled with bullets in Mississippi; the four darling little girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama.
许多人在争取投票权的斗争中失去了生命：年轻的学生吉米·李·杰克逊献出了自己的生命；来自底特律的白人母亲维奥拉·利乌佐（Viola Liuzzo）被称为“黑鬼情人”，她的大脑在近距离被炸飞； [迈克尔]施维尔纳、[安德鲁]古德曼和[詹姆斯]钱尼——两名犹太人和一名黑人——在密西西比州的一个共同坟墓中被发现，尸体上布满了子弹；阿拉巴马州伯明翰一座教堂里的四个可爱的小女孩。
They died that we might have a right to live.
他们的死是为了让我们有生存的权利。
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lies only a few miles from us tonight.
今晚，马丁·路德·金博士就在离我们只有几英里的地方。
Tonight he must feel good as he looks down upon us.
今晚他瞧不起我们，一定感觉很好。
We sit here together, a rainbow, a coalition -- the sons and daughters of slavemasters and the sons and daughters of slaves, sitting together around a common table, to decide the direction of our party and our country.
我们坐在一起，一道彩虹，一个联盟——奴隶主的儿女和奴隶的儿女，围坐在一张共同的桌子旁，决定我们党和国家的方向。
His heart would be full tonight.
今晚他的心会很充实。
As a testament to the struggles of those who have gone before; as a legacy for those who will come after; as a tribute to the endurance, the patience, the courage of our forefathers and mothers; as an assurance that their prayers are being answered, that their work has not been in vain, and, that hope is eternal, tomorrow night my name will go into nomination for the Presidency of the United States of America.
作为前人奋斗的证明；作为后人的遗产；向我们的祖先和母亲的忍耐力、耐心和勇气致敬；为了保证他们的祈祷得到回应，他们的工作没有白费，而且希望是永恒的，明晚我的名字将被提名为美利坚合众国总统。
We meet tonight at the crossroads, a point of decision.
今晚我们在十字路口相遇，这是一个做出决定的时刻。
Shall we expand, be inclusive, find unity and power; or suffer division and impotence?
我们是否应该扩大、包容、找到团结和力量？还是遭受分裂和无能？
We've come to Atlanta, the cradle of the Old South, the crucible of the New South.
我们来到了亚特兰大，这里是旧南方的摇篮，也是新南方的熔炉。
Tonight, there is a sense of celebration, because we are moved, fundamentally moved from racial battlegrounds by law, to economic common ground.
今晚，有一种庆祝的感觉，因为我们被感动了，从根本上从法律的种族战场转向了经济共同点。
Tomorrow we'll challenge to move to higher ground.
明天我们将挑战搬到更高的地方。
Common ground.
共同点。
Think of Jerusalem, the intersection where many trails met.
想想耶路撒冷，许多小径交汇的十字路口。
A small village that became the birthplace for three great religions -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
一个小村庄，成为三大宗教——犹太教、基督教和伊斯兰教的发源地。
Why was this village so blessed?
这个村子为何如此蒙福？
Because it provided a crossroads where different people met, different cultures, different civilizations could meet and find common ground.
因为它提供了一个十字路口，不同的人可以在这里相遇，不同的文化、不同的文明可以相遇并找到共同点。
When people come together, flowers always flourish -- the air is rich with the aroma of a new spring.
人们相聚，鲜花盛开，空气中弥漫着新春的香气。
Take New York, the dynamic metropolis.
以纽约这个充满活力的大都市为例。
What makes New York so special?
是什么让纽约如此特别？
It's the invitation at the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses who yearn to breathe free." Not restricted to English only.
这是自由女神像发出的邀请：“给我你们疲惫的、贫穷的、拥挤的、渴望自由呼吸的群众。”不仅限于英语。
Many people, many cultures, many languages with one thing in common: They yearn to breathe free.
许多人、多种文化、多种语言都有一个共同点：他们渴望自由呼吸。
Common ground.
共同点。
Tonight in Atlanta, for the first time in this century, we convene in the South; a state where Governors once stood in school house doors; where Julian Bond was denied a seat in the State Legislature because of his conscientious objection to the Vietnam War; a city that, through its five Black Universities, has graduated more black students than any city in the world.
今晚在亚特兰大，我们本世纪第一次在南方聚会；州长曾经站在校门口的州；朱利安·邦德因良心反对越南战争而被剥夺州议会席位；这座城市通过其五所黑人大学毕业的黑人学生比世界上任何一个城市都多。
Atlanta, now a modern intersection of the New South.
亚特兰大，现在是新南方的现代十字路口。
Common ground.
共同点。
That's the challenge of our party tonight -- left wing, right wing.
这就是我们党今晚面临的挑战——左翼，右翼。
Progress will not come through boundless liberalism nor static conservatism, but at the critical mass of mutual survival -- not at boundless liberalism nor static conservatism, but at the critical mass of mutual survival.
进步不会通过无限的自由主义或静态的保守主义实现，而是通过共同生存的临界点实现——不是通过无限的自由主义或静态的保守主义，而是通过共同生存的临界点。
It takes two wings to fly.
需要两只翅膀才能飞翔。
Whether you're a hawk or a dove, you're just a bird living in the same environment, in the same world.
无论你是鹰还是鸽子，你都只是生活在同一个环境、同一个世界的鸟。
The Bible teaches that when lions and lambs lie down together, none will be afraid, and there will be peace in the valley.
圣经教导说，当狮子和羔羊躺在一起时，没有人会害怕，山谷里就会有和平。
It sounds impossible.
听起来不可能。
Lions eat lambs.
狮子吃羔羊。
Lambs sensibly flee from lions.
羔羊明智地逃离狮子。
Yet even lions and lambs find common ground.
然而，即使是狮子和羔羊也能找到共同点。
Why?
为什么？
Because neither lions nor lambs want the forest to catch on fire.
因为狮子和羔羊都不希望森林着火。
Neither lions nor lambs want acid rain to fall.
狮子和羔羊都不希望下酸雨。
Neither lions nor lambs can survive nuclear war.
狮子和羔羊都无法在核战争中幸存。
If lions and lambs can find common ground, surely we can as well -- as civilized people.
如果狮子和羔羊能够找到共同点，那么作为文明人的我们当然也能找到共同点。
The only time that we win is when we come together.
我们唯一获胜的时候就是我们团结在一起的时候。
In 1960, John Kennedy, the late John Kennedy, beat Richard Nixon by only 112,000 votes -- less than one vote per precinct.
1960 年，约翰·肯尼迪（已故的约翰·肯尼迪）仅以 112,000 票击败理查德·尼克松——每个选区不到一票。
He won by the margin of our hope.
他以我们希望的优势获胜。
He brought us together.
他让我们走到了一起。
He reached out.
他伸出手。
He had the courage to defy his advisors and inquire about Dr. King's jailing in Albany, Georgia.
他有勇气反抗他的顾问，并询问金博士在佐治亚州奥尔巴尼被监禁的情况。
We won by the margin of our hope, inspired by courageous leadership.
在勇敢的领导的鼓舞下，我们以微弱的希望获胜。
In 1964, Lyndon Johnson brought both wings together -- the thesis, the antithesis, and the creative synthesis -- and together we won.
1964 年，林登·约翰逊 (Lyndon Johnson) 将两个方面结合在一起——正题、对立和创造性综合——我们一起获胜。
In 1976, Jimmy Carter unified us again, and we won.
1976年，吉米·卡特再次团结了我们，我们赢了。
When do we not come together, we never win.
当我们不团结起来时，我们永远不会获胜。
In 1968, the division and despair in July led to our defeat in November.
1968年，7月的分裂和绝望导致我们11月的失败。
In 1980, rancor in the spring and the summer led to Reagan in the fall.
1980年，春天和夏天的积怨导致了里根的秋天。
When we divide, we cannot win.
当我们分裂时，我们就无法获胜。
We must find common ground as the basis for survival and development and change and growth.
我们必须找到共同点，作为生存发展、变革成长的基础。
Today when we debated, differed, deliberated, agreed to agree, agreed to disagree, when we had the good judgment to argue a case and then not self-destruct, George Bush was just a little further away from the White House and a little closer to private life.
今天，当我们辩论、不同、深思熟虑、同意一致、同意不同同意时，当我们有良好的判断力去争论一个案件而不是自我毁灭时，乔治·布什离白宫只是远了一点，离私人生活更近了一点。
Tonight, I salute Governor Michael Dukakis.
今晚，我向迈克尔·杜卡基斯州长致敬。
He has run -- He has run a well-managed and a dignified campaign.
他参加了一场管理良好、有尊严的竞选活动。
No matter how tired or how tried, he always resisted the temptation to stoop to demagoguery.
无论多么疲倦，多么努力，他总是抵制住煽动性的诱惑。
I've watched a good mind fast at work, with steel nerves, guiding his campaign out of the crowded field without appeal to the worst in us.
我亲眼目睹了一个头脑清醒的人以钢铁般的勇气快速工作，引导他的竞选活动走出拥挤的战场，而没有吸引我们中最坏的人。
I've watched his perspective grow as his environment has expanded.
我看到他的观点随着他的环境的扩大而增长。
I've seen his toughness and tenacity close up.
我近距离看到了他的坚韧和坚韧。
I know his commitment to public service.
我知道他对公共服务的承诺。
Mike Dukakis' parents were a doctor and a teacher; my parents a maid, a beautician, and a janitor.
迈克·杜卡基斯 (Mike Dukakis) 的父母分别是医生和教师。我的父母是女佣、美容师和看门人。
There's a great gap between Brookline, Massachusetts and Haney Street in the Fieldcrest Village housing projects in Greenville, South Carolina.
马萨诸塞州布鲁克莱恩市和南卡罗来纳州格林维尔市 Fieldcrest Village 住房项目中的哈尼街之间存在很大差距。
He studied law; I studied theology.
他学的是法律；我学过神学。
There are differences of religion, region, and race; differences in experiences and perspectives.
有宗教、地域、种族的差异；经验和观点的差异。
But the genius of America is that out of the many we become one.
但美国的天才之处在于，我们从众多人中脱颖而出。
Providence has enabled our paths to intersect.
普罗维登斯使我们的道路得以交叉。
His foreparents came to America on immigrant ships; my foreparents came to America on slave ships.
他的父母乘坐移民船来到美国。我的祖先乘坐奴隶船来到美国。
But whatever the original ships, we're in the same boat tonight.
但无论最初的船是什么，今晚我们都在同一条船上。
Our ships could pass in the night -- if we have a false sense of independence -- or they could collide and crash.
如果我们有错误的独立感，我们的船只可能会在夜间通过，否则它们可能会相撞并坠毁。
We would lose our passengers.
我们会失去乘客。
We can seek a high reality and a greater good.
我们可以寻求崇高的现实和更大的利益。
Apart, we can drift on the broken pieces of Reagonomics, satisfy our baser instincts, and exploit the fears of our people.
分开后，我们可以在里贡经济学的碎片上随波逐流，满足我们卑鄙的本能，并利用我们人民的恐惧。
At our highest, we can call upon noble instincts and navigate this vessel to safety.
在我们的最高境界，我们可以召唤崇高的本能并驾驶这艘船到达安全地带。
The greater good is the common good.
更大的利益就是共同利益。
As Jesus said, "Not My will, but Thine be done." It was his way of saying there's a higher good beyond personal comfort or position.
正如耶稣所说：“不要成就我的意思，只要成就你的意思。”这是他表达个人舒适或地位之外还有更高善的方式。
The good of our Nation is at stake.
我们国家的利益受到威胁。
It's commitment to working men and women, to the poor and the vulnerable, to the many in the world.
它是对劳动人民、穷人和弱势群体以及世界上许多人的承诺。
With so many guided missiles, and so much misguided leadership, the stakes are exceedingly high.
拥有如此多的导弹和如此多的误导性领导，风险非常高。
Our choice?
我们的选择？
Full participation in a democratic government, or more abandonment and neglect.
充分参与民主政府，或者更多的放弃和忽视。
And so this night, we choose not a false sense of independence, not our capacity to survive and endure.
因此，今晚，我们选择的不是错误的独立感，也不是我们生存和忍受的能力。
Tonight we choose interdependency, and our capacity to act and unite for the greater good.
今晚，我们选择相互依存，以及我们为了更大的利益而采取行动和团结的能力。
Common good is finding commitment to new priorities to expansion and inclusion.
共同利益是寻求对扩张和包容性新优先事项的承诺。
A commitment to expanded participation in the Democratic Party at every level.
致力于扩大民主党各个层面的参与。
A commitment to a shared national campaign strategy and involvement at every level.
致力于共同的国家竞选战略和各个层面的参与。
A commitment to new priorities that insure that hope will be kept alive.
对新优先事项的承诺，确保希望得以延续。
A common ground commitment to a legislative agenda for empowerment, for the John Conyers bill -- universal, on-site, same-day registration everywhere.
对约翰·科尼尔斯法案的赋权立法议程的共同承诺——各地普遍、现场、当天登记。
A commitment to D.C. statehood and empowerment -- D.C. deserves statehood.
对华盛顿特区建州和赋权的承诺——华盛顿特区值得建州。
A commitment to economic set-asides, commitment to the Dellums bill for comprehensive sanctions against South Africa.
承诺经济预留，承诺对南非进行全面制裁的戴尔姆斯法案。
A shared commitment to a common direction.
对共同方向的共同承诺。
Easier said than done.
说起来容易做起来难。
Where do you find common ground?
你们在哪里找到共同点？
At the point of challenge.
在挑战的时刻。
This campaign has shown that politics need not be marketed by politicians, packaged by pollsters and pundits.
这场竞选活动表明，政治不需要由政客推销、由民意调查专家和专家包装。
Politics can be a moral arena where people come together to find common ground.
政治可以成为人们聚集在一起寻找共同点的道德舞台。
We find common ground at the plant gate that closes on workers without notice.
我们在工厂大门上找到了共同点，工厂大门在没有通知的情况下关闭了工人。
We find common ground at the farm auction, where a good farmer loses his or her land to bad loans or diminishing markets.
我们在农场拍卖中找到了共同点，优秀的农民因不良贷款或市场萎缩而失去了土地。
Common ground at the school yard where teachers cannot get adequate pay, and students cannot get a scholarship, and can't make a loan.
校园里的共同点是教师拿不到足够的工资，学生拿不到奖学金，也拿不到贷款。
Common ground at the hospital admitting room, where somebody tonight is dying because they cannot afford to go upstairs to a bed that's empty waiting for someone with insurance to get sick.
医院住院室的共同点是，今晚有人即将死去，因为他们无力上楼到一张空床位等待有保险的人生病。
We are a better nation than that.
我们是一个比那更好的国家。
We must do better.
我们必须做得更好。
What is leadership if not present help in a time of crisis?
如果不在危机时刻提供帮助，领导力又算什么？
And so I met you at the point of challenge.
所以我在面临挑战的时候遇见了你。
In Jay, Maine, where paper workers were striking for fair wages; in Greenville, Iowa, where family farmers struggle for a fair price; in Cleveland, Ohio, where working women seek comparable worth; in McFarland, California, where the children of Hispanic farm workers may be dying from poisoned land, dying in clusters with cancer; in an AIDS hospice in Houston, Texas, where the sick support one another, too often rejected by their own parents and friends.
在缅因州杰伊，造纸工人为争取公平工资而举行罢工；在爱荷华州格林维尔，家庭农民为获得公平的价格而奋斗；在俄亥俄州克利夫兰，职业女性寻求同等的价值；在加利福尼亚州的麦克法兰，西班牙裔农场工人的孩子可能死于有毒的土地，并死于癌症；在德克萨斯州休斯敦的一家艾滋病临终关怀中心，病人互相支持，但常常遭到自己的父母和朋友的拒绝。
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
美国不是一条用一根线、一种颜色、一块布织成的毯子。
When I was a child growing up in Greenville, South Carolina and grandmamma could not afford a blanket, she didn't complain and we did not freeze.
当我还是个在南卡罗来纳州格林维尔长大的孩子时，奶奶买不起毯子，她没有抱怨，我们也没有被冻住。
Instead she took pieces of old cloth -- patches, wool, silk, gabardine, crockersack -- only patches, barely good enough to wipe off your shoes with.
相反，她拿了一些旧布——补丁、羊毛、丝绸、华达呢、帆布袋——只是补丁，勉强够用来擦鞋子。
But they didn't stay that way very long.
但他们并没有保持这种状态太久。
With sturdy hands and a strong cord, she sewed them together into a quilt, a thing of beauty and power and culture.
她用强壮的双手和一根结实的绳子将它们缝成一床被子，一件美丽、力量和文化的东西。
Now, Democrats, we must build such a quilt.
现在，民主党人，我们必须盖这样一床被子。
Farmers, you seek fair prices and you are right -- but you cannot stand alone.
农民们，你们寻求公平的价格，你们是对的——但你们不能孤立无援。
Your patch is not big enough.
你的补丁不够大。
Workers, you fight for fair wages, you are right -- but your patch labor is not big enough.
工人们，你们争取公平的工资，你们是对的——但你们的零散劳动力还不够大。
Women, you seek comparable worth and pay equity, you are right -- but your patch is not big enough.
女性，你们追求同等的价值和薪酬公平，你们是对的——但你们的领域还不够大。
Women, mothers, who seek Head Start, and day care and prenatal care on the front side of life, relevant jail care and welfare on the back side of life, you are right -- but your patch is not big enough.
女性、母亲们，在生活的正面寻求启蒙、日托和产前护理，在生活的背面寻求相关的监狱护理和福利，你们是对的——但你们的补丁还不够大。
Students, you seek scholarships, you are right -- but your patch is not big enough.
同学们，你们寻求奖学金，你们是对的——但你们的地盘不够大。
Blacks and Hispanics, when we fight for civil rights, we are right -- but our patch is not big enough.
黑人和西班牙裔，当我们为民权而战时，我们是对的——但我们的领地还不够大。
Gays and lesbians, when you fight against discrimination and a cure for AIDS, you are right -- but your patch is not big enough.
男女同性恋者，当你们反对歧视和治疗艾滋病时，你们是对的——但你们的努力还不够大。
Conservatives and progressives, when you fight for what you believe, right wing, left wing, hawk, dove, you are right from your point of view, but your point of view is not enough.
保守派和进步派，当你为自己的信仰而战时，右翼、左翼、鹰派、鸽派，从你的角度来看你是对的，但你的观点还不够。
But don't despair.
但不要绝望。
Be as wise as my grandmamma.
像我的奶奶一样聪明。
Pull the patches and the pieces together, bound by a common thread.
将补丁和碎片拉在一起，用一根普通的线绑在一起。
When we form a great quilt of unity and common ground, we'll have the power to bring about health care and housing and jobs and education and hope to our Nation.
当我们形成团结和共同点的伟大被子时，我们将有能力为我们的国家带来医疗保健、住房、就业、教育和希望。
We stand at the end of a long dark night of reaction.
我们正处于反应的漫漫长夜的尽头。
We stand tonight united in the commitment to a new direction.
今晚我们团结一致，致力于新的方向。
For almost eight years we've been led by those who view social good coming from private interest, who view public life as a means to increase private wealth.
近八年来，我们一直由那些认为社会福利来自私人利益、将公共生活视为增加私人财富的手段的人领导。
They have been prepared to sacrifice the common good of the many to satisfy the private interests and the wealth of a few.
他们已经准备好牺牲多数人的共同利益来满足私人利益和少数人的财富。
We believe in a government that's a tool of our democracy in service to the public, not an instrument of the aristocracy in search of private wealth.
我们相信政府是为公众服务的民主工具，而不是贵族寻求私人财富的工具。
We believe in government with the consent of the governed, "of, for and by the people." We must now emerge into a new day with a new direction.
我们相信政府必须得到被统治者的同意，“民有、民享、民治”。我们现在必须以新的方向迎接新的一天。
Reaganomics: Based on the belief that the rich had too much money [sic] -- too little money and the poor had too much.
里根经济学：基于这样的信念：富人拥有太多钱[原文如此]——钱太少而穷人拥有太多。
That's classic Reaganomics.
这就是经典的里根经济学。
They believe that the poor had too much money and the rich had too little money,- so they engaged in reverse Robin Hood - took from the poor, gave to the rich, paid for by the middle class.
他们认为穷人的钱太多，富人的钱太少，所以他们搞了反向罗宾汉——从穷人那里拿走，送给富人，由中产阶级买单。
We cannot stand four more years of Reaganomics in any version, in any disguise.
我们无法忍受任何版本、任何伪装的里根经济学再持续四年。
How do I document that case?
我如何记录该案例？
Seven years later, the richest 1 percent of our society pays 20 percent less in taxes.
七年后，我们社会中最富有的 1% 的人缴纳的税款减少了 20%。
The poorest 10 percent pay 20 percent more: Reaganomics.
最贫穷的 10% 人多付 20%：里根经济学。
Reagan gave the rich and the powerful a multibillion-dollar party.
里根为富人和有权势的人举办了数十亿美元的派对。
Now the party is over.
现在聚会结束了。
He expects the people to pay for the damage.
他希望人们为损失付出代价。
I take this principal position, convention, let us not raise taxes on the poor and the middle-class, but those who had the party, the rich and the powerful, must pay for the party.
我采取这个主要立场，惯例是，我们不要对穷人和中产阶级加税，但那些拥有政党的人，富人和有权势的人，必须为政党付钱。
I just want to take common sense to high places.
我只是想把常识带到高处。
We're spending one hundred and fifty billion dollars a year defending Europe and Japan 43 years after the war is over.
战争结束 43 年后，我们每年花费 1500 亿美元保卫欧洲和日本。
We have more troops in Europe tonight than we had seven years ago.
今晚我们在欧洲的军队比七年前还要多。
Yet the threat of war is ever more remote.
然而战争的威胁却更加遥远。
Germany and Japan are now creditor nations; that means they've got a surplus.
德国和日本现在是债权国；这意味着他们有盈余。
We are a debtor nation -- means we are in debt.
我们是一个债务国——意味着我们负债累累。
Let them share more of the burden of their own defense.
让他们更多地分担自己的防守负担。
Use some of that money to build decent housing.
用其中的一些钱建造像样的住房。
Use some of that money to educate our children.
用其中一些钱来教育我们的孩子。
Use some of that money for long-term health care.
将其中一些钱用于长期医疗保健。
Use some of that money to wipe out these slums and put America back to work!
用其中的一些钱来消灭这些贫民窟，让美国恢复工作！
I just want to take common sense to high places.
我只是想把常识带到高处。
If we can bail out Europe and Japan; if we can bail out Continental Bank and Chrysler -- and Mr. Iacocca, make [sic] 8,000 dollars an hour -- we can bail out the family farmer.
如果我们能够救助欧洲和日本；如果我们能够救助大陆银行和克莱斯勒——以及艾科卡先生，每小时挣 8,000 美元——我们就能救助家庭农场主。
I just want to make common sense.
我只是想讲点常识。
It does not make sense to close down six hundred and fifty thousand family farms in this country while importing food from abroad subsidized by the U.S. Government.
关闭这个国家六十五万个家庭农场，同时从美国政府补贴的国外进口食品，这是没有意义的。
Let's make sense.
让我们说点道理。
It does not make sense to be escorting all our tankers up and down the Persian Gulf paying $2.50 for every one dollar worth of oil we bring out, while oil wells are capped in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.
在德克萨斯州、俄克拉荷马州和路易斯安那州的油井受到限制的情况下，护送我们所有的油轮在波斯湾往返，为每运出一美元的石油支付 2.5 美元，这是没有意义的。
I just want to make sense.
我只是想讲道理。
Leadership must meet the moral challenge of its day.
领导力必须应对当今的道德挑战。
What's the moral challenge of our day?
我们今天面临的道德挑战是什么？
We have public accommodations.
我们有公共住宿。
We have the right to vote.
我们有投票权。
We have open housing.
我们有开放式住房。
What's the fundamental challenge of our day?
我们今天面临的根本挑战是什么？
It is to end economic violence.
这是为了结束经济暴力。
Plant closings without notice -- economic violence.
工厂未经通知而关闭——经济暴力。
Even the greedy do not profit long from greed -- economic violence.
即使是贪婪的人也无法从贪婪——经济暴力中长期获利。
Most poor people are not lazy.
大多数穷人并不懒惰。
They are not black.
他们不是黑人。
They are not brown.
它们不是棕色的。
They are mostly White and female and young.
他们大多是白人、女性和年轻人。
But whether White, Black or Brown, a hungry baby's belly turned inside out is the same color -- color it pain; color it hurt; color it agony.
但无论是白色、黑色还是棕色，饥饿的婴儿翻过来的肚子都是同一种颜色——颜色是痛苦；颜色是痛苦；颜色是痛苦；颜色是痛苦。给受伤的颜色上色；给它上色痛苦。
Most poor people are not on welfare.
大多数穷人没有领取福利。
Some of them are illiterate and can't read the want-ad sections.
他们中的一些人是文盲，无法阅读招聘广告部分。
And when they can, they can't find a job that matches the address.
即使可以，他们也找不到与地址相符的工作。
They work hard everyday.
他们每天都努力工作。
I know.
我知道。
I live amongst them.
我住在他们中间。
I'm one of them.
我是其中之一。
I know they work.
我知道它们有效。
I'm a witness.
我是证人。
They catch the early bus.
他们赶早班车。
They work every day.
他们每天都工作。
They raise other people's children.
他们抚养别人的孩子。
They work everyday.
他们每天都工作。
They clean the streets.
他们打扫街道。
They work everyday.
他们每天都工作。
They drive dangerous cabs.
他们驾驶危险的出租车。
They work everyday.
他们每天都工作。
They change the beds you slept in in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract.
他们会更换你昨晚在这些酒店睡的床，而且无法获得工会合同。
They work everyday.
他们每天都工作。
No, no, they are not lazy!
不，不，他们并不懒！
Someone must defend them because it's right, and they cannot speak for themselves.
必须有人为他们辩护，因为这是正确的，而他们不能为自己说话。
They work in hospitals.
他们在医院工作。
I know they do.
我知道他们会的。
They wipe the bodies of those who are sick with fever and pain.
他们为发烧、疼痛的病人擦拭身体。
They empty their bedpans.
他们清空便盆。
They clean out their commodes.
他们清理马桶。
No job is beneath them, and yet when they get sick they cannot lie in the bed they made up every day.
没有什么工作比他们低下，但当他们生病时，他们却不能躺在每天铺好的床上。
America, that is not right.
美国，这是不对的。
We are a better Nation than that.
我们是一个比这更好的国家。
We are a better Nation than that.
我们是一个比这更好的国家。
We need a real war on drugs.
我们需要一场真正的禁毒战争。
You can't "just say no." It's deeper than that.
你不能“只是说不”。比那更深。
You can't just get a palm reader or an astrologer.
你不能只找一个看手相或占星师。
It's more profound than that.
比这更深刻。
We are spending a hundred and fifty billion dollars on drugs a year.
我们每年在毒品上花费一千五十亿美元。
We've gone from ignoring it to focusing on the children.
我们已经从忽视它转向关注孩子们。
Children cannot buy a hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of drugs a year; a few high-profile athletes -- athletes are not laundering a hundred and fifty billion dollars a year -- bankers are.
孩子们每年买不到价值一千五十亿美元的毒品；一些备受瞩目的运动员——运动员每年洗钱的金额不达一千五十亿美元——银行家却是。
I met the children in Watts, who, unfortunately, in their despair, their grapes of hope have become raisins of despair, and they're turning on each other and they're self-destructing.
我在瓦茨遇到了孩子们，不幸的是，在他们的绝望中，他们的希望葡萄变成了绝望的葡萄干，他们互相攻击，他们正在自我毁灭。
But I stayed with them all night long.
但我整个晚上都和他们在一起。
I wanted to hear their case.
我想听听他们的案子。
They said, "Jesse Jackson, as you challenge us to say no to drugs, you're right; and to not sell them, you're right; and not use these guns, you're right." (And by the way, the promise of CETA [Comprehensive Employment and Training Act]; they displaced CETA -- they did not replace CETA.)
他们说：“杰西·杰克逊，当你挑战我们对毒品说不时，你是对的；不出售毒品，你是对的；不使用这些枪支，你是对的。” （顺便说一句，CETA [综合就业和培训法案] 的承诺；它们取代了 CETA——它们并没有取代 CETA。）
"We have neither jobs nor houses nor services nor training -- no way out.
“我们没有工作，没有房子，没有服务，也没有培训——没有出路。
Some of us take drugs as anesthesia for our pain.
我们中的一些人服用药物作为止痛的麻醉剂。
Some take drugs as a way of pleasure, good short-term pleasure and long-term pain.
有些人把毒品当作一种快乐的方式，短暂的快乐和长期的痛苦。
Some sell drugs to make money.
有些人贩卖毒品来赚钱。
It's wrong, we know, but you need to know that we know.
我们知道这是错误的，但你需要知道我们知道。
We can go and buy the drugs by the boxes at the port.
我们可以去港口按箱买药。
If we can buy the drugs at the port, don't you believe the Federal government can stop it if they want to?"
如果我们能在港口买到毒品，你不相信联邦政府想阻止就可以阻止吗？”
They say, "We don't have Saturday night specials anymore." They say, "We buy AK47's and Uzi's, the latest make of weapons.
他们说：“我们不再有周六晚上的特价了。”他们说：“我们购买最新型号的 AK47 和 Uzi 武器。
We buy them across the along these boulevards."
我们沿着这些林荫大道购买它们。”
You cannot fight a war on drugs unless and until you're going to challenge the bankers and the gun sellers and those who grow them.
除非你要挑战银行家、枪支销售商和种植枪支的人，否则你不能打毒品战争。
Don't just focus on the children; let's stop drugs at the level of supply and demand.
不要只关注孩子；让我们从供应和需求层面阻止毒品。
We must end the scourge on the American Culture.
我们必须结束美国文化的祸害。
Leadership.
领导。
What difference will we make?
我们会带来什么改变？
Leadership.
领导。
Cannot just go along to get along.
不能只是为了相处而相处。
We must do more than change Presidents.
我们要做的不仅仅是更换总统。
We must change direction.
我们必须改变方向。
Leadership must face the moral challenge of our day.
领导层必须面对当今的道德挑战。
The nuclear war build-up is irrational.
核战争的积累是非理性的。
Strong leadership cannot desire to look tough and let that stand in the way of the pursuit of peace.
强有力的领导不能希望表现得强硬，从而阻碍追求和平。
Leadership must reverse the arms race.
领导层必须扭转军备竞赛。
At least we should pledge no first use.
至少我们应该保证不首先使用。
Why?
为什么？
Because first use begets first retaliation.
因为第一次使用就会招致第一次报复。
And that's mutual annihilation.
这就是相互消灭。
That's not a rational way out.
这不是一个理性的出路。
No use at all.
根本没有用。
Let's think it out and not fight it our because it's an unwinnable fight.
让我们想清楚，不要去战斗，因为这是一场无法获胜的战斗。
Why hold a card that you can never drop?
为什么要持有一张永远不会掉落的卡？
Let's give peace a chance.
让我们给和平一个机会。
Leadership.
领导。
We now have this marvelous opportunity to have a breakthrough with the Soviets.
我们现在有了这个与苏联取得突破的绝佳机会。
Last year 200,000 Americans visited the Soviet Union.
去年有20万美国人访问了苏联。
There's a chance for joint ventures into space -- not Star Wars and war arms escalation but a space defense initiative.
太空合资企业是有机会的——不是星球大战和战争武器升级，而是太空防御计划。
Let's build in the space together and demilitarize the heavens.
让我们一起建设太空，使天空非军事化。
There's a way out.
有一条出路。
America, let us expand.
美国，让我们扩张吧。
When Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev met there was a big meeting.
当里根先生和戈尔巴乔夫先生见面时，举行了一次大型会议。
They represented together one-eighth of the human race.
他们加在一起代表了人类的八分之一。
Seven-eighths of the human race was locked out of that room.
八分之七的人类被锁在那个房间之外。
Most people in the world tonight -- half are Asian, one-half of them are Chinese.
今晚世界上大多数人——一半是亚洲人，一半是中国人。
There are 22 nations in the Middle East.
中东有22个国家。
There's Europe; 40 million Latin Americans next door to us; the Caribbean; Africa -- a half-billion people.
那是欧洲； 4000万拉丁美洲人就在我们身边；加勒比海；非洲——五亿人口。
Most people in the world today are Yellow or Brown or Black, non-Christian, poor, female, young and don't speak English in the real world.
当今世界上的大多数人是黄种人、棕色人种或黑人、非基督徒、穷人、女性、年轻人，并且在现实世界中不会说英语。
This generation must offer leadership to the real world.
这一代人必须为现实世界提供领导力。
We're losing ground in Latin America, Middle East, South Africa because we're not focusing on the real world.
我们在拉丁美洲、中东、南非正在节节败退，因为我们没有关注现实世界。
That's the real world.
这就是真实的世界。
We must use basic principles -- support international law.
我们必须遵循基本原则——支持国际法。
We stand the most to gain from it.
我们从中获益最多。
Support human rights -- we believe in that.
支持人权——我们对此深信不疑。
Support self-determination -- we're built on that.
支持自决——我们以此为基础。
Support economic development -- you know it's right.
支持经济发展——你知道这是对的。
Be consistent and gain our moral authority in the world.
保持一致并在世界上获得我们的道德权威。
I challenge you tonight, my friends, let's be bigger and better as a Nation and as a Party.
我的朋友们，今晚我向你们发出挑战，让我们作为一个国家和一个政党变得更大、更好。
We have basic challenges -- freedom in South Africa.
我们面临基本的挑战——南非的自由。
We've already agreed as Democrats to declare South Africa to be a terrorist state.
作为民主党人，我们已经同意宣布南非为恐怖主义国家。
But don't just stop there.
但不要仅限于此。
Get South Africa out of Angola; free Namibia; support the front line states.
让南非脱离安哥拉；自由的纳米比亚；支持前线国家。
We must have a new humane human rights consistent policy in Africa.
我们必须在非洲制定新的人道人权政策。
I'm often asked, "Jesse, why do you take on these tough issues?
我经常被问到：“杰西，你为什么要面对这些棘手的问题？
They're not very political.
他们不太政治化。
We can't win that way."
这样我们就赢不了。”
If an issue is morally right, it will eventually be political.
如果一个问题在道德上是正确的，它最终将成为政治问题。
It may be political and never be right.
这可能是政治性的，而且永远不会是正确的。
Fannie Lou Hamer didn't have the most votes in Atlantic City, but her principles have outlasted every delegate who voted to lock her out.
范妮·卢·哈默 (Fannie Lou Hamer) 在大西洋城并没有获得最多的选票，但她的原则比每一位投票将她拒之门外的代表都更长久。
Rosa Parks did not have the most votes, but she was morally right.
罗莎·帕克斯没有获得最多的选票，但她在道德上是正确的。
Dr. King didn't have the most votes about the Vietnam War, but he was morally right.
金博士在越南战争问题上没有获得最多的选票，但他在道德上是正确的。
If we are principled first, our politics will fall in place.
如果我们首先坚持原则，我们的政治就会到位。
"Jesse, why do you take these big bold initiatives?" A poem by an unknown author went something like this: "We mastered the air, we conquered the sea, annihilated distance and prolonged life, but we're not wise enough to live on this earth without war and without hate."
“杰西，你为什么要采取这些大胆的举措？”一位不知名作家的一首诗是这样写的：“我们掌握了空气，我们征服了海洋，消灭了距离，延长了寿命，但我们还没有智慧到生活在这个没有战争、没有仇恨的地球上。”
As for Jesse Jackson: "I'm tired of sailing my little boat, far inside the harbor bar.
至于杰西·杰克逊：“我厌倦了在海港酒吧深处驾驶我的小船。
I want to go out where the big ships float, out on the deep where the great ones are.
我想去大船漂浮的地方，去伟大的船只所在的深处。
And should my frail craft prove too slight for waves that sweep those billows o'er, I'd rather go down in the stirring fight than drowse to death at the sheltered shore."
如果我那脆弱的船对于扫过那些巨浪的海浪来说太轻了，我宁愿在激动人心的战斗中沉没，也不愿在有庇护的海岸上睡死。”
We've got to go out, my friends, where the big boats are.
我的朋友们，我们必须出去，去那些大船所在的地方。
And then for our children.
然后是为了我们的孩子。
Young America, hold your head high now.
年轻的美国，现在抬起头来吧。
We can win.
我们能赢。
We must not lose you to drugs and violence, premature pregnancy, suicide, cynicism, pessimism and despair.
我们决不能让您因毒品和暴力、早孕、自杀、愤世嫉俗、悲观和绝望而失去。
We can win.
我们能赢。
Wherever you are tonight, I challenge you to hope and to dream.
今晚无论你身在何处，我都向你挑战，让你充满希望和梦想。
Don't submerge your dreams.
不要淹没你的梦想。
Exercise above all else, even on drugs, dream of the day you are drug free.
锻炼高于一切，即使是吸毒者，也梦想着有一天你不再吸毒。
Even in the gutter, dream of the day that you will be up on your feet again.
即使在阴沟里，也要梦想有一天你能重新站起来。
You must never stop dreaming.
你永远不能停止梦想。
Face reality, yes, but don't stop with the way things are.
面对现实，是的，但不要满足于现状。
Dream of things as they ought to be.
梦想事物应有的样子。
Dream.
梦。
Face pain, but love, hope, faith and dreams will help you rise above the pain.
面对痛苦，但爱、希望、信念和梦想会帮助你超越痛苦。
Use hope and imagination as weapons of survival and progress, but you keep on dreaming, young America.
使用希望和想象力作为生存和进步的武器，但你要继续梦想，年轻的美国。
Dream of peace.
梦想和平。
Peace is rational and reasonable.
和平是理性的、合理的。
War is irrationable [sic] in this age, and unwinnable.
在这个时代，战争是不合理的，而且是不可能获胜的。
Dream of teachers who teach for life and not for a living.
梦想教师为终身教书而不是谋生。
Dream of doctors who are concerned more about public health than private wealth.
梦想医生更关心公共健康而不是私人财富。
Dream of lawyers more concerned about justice than a judgeship.
梦想律师比法官更关心正义。
Dream of preachers who are concerned more about prophecy than profiteering.
梦见传教士更关心预言而不是暴利。
Dream on the high road with sound values.
带着正确的价值观走在大道上的梦想。
And then America, as we go forth to September, October, November and then beyond, America must never surrender to a high moral challenge.
然后是美国，当我们进入 9 月、10 月、11 月乃至更久的时间时，美国绝不能屈服于崇高的道德挑战。
Do not surrender to drugs.
不要向毒品投降。
The best drug policy is a "no first use." Don't surrender with needles and cynicism.
最好的毒品政策是“不首次使用”。不要用针头和愤世嫉俗投降。
Let's have "no first use" on the one hand, or clinics on the other.
我们一方面要“不首次使用”，另一方面要“诊所”。
Never surrender, young America.
永远不要投降，年轻的美国。
Go forward.
前进。
America must never surrender to malnutrition.
美国决不能屈服于营养不良。
We can feed the hungry and clothe the naked.
我们可以让饥饿的人吃饱，让赤身露体的人有衣服穿。
We must never surrender.
我们决不能投降。
We must go forward.
我们必须前进。
We must never surrender to illiteracy.
我们决不能屈服于文盲。
Invest in our children.
投资于我们的孩子。
Never surrender; and go forward.
永不投降；并继续前进。
We must never surrender to inequality.
我们决不能屈服于不平等。
Women cannot compromise ERA or comparable worth.
女性不能妥协 ERA 或同等价值。
Women are making 60 cents on the dollar to what a man makes.
女性的收入仅为男性的 60 美分。
Women cannot buy meat cheaper.
女性买不到更便宜的肉。
Women cannot buy bread cheaper.
女人买不到更便宜的面包。
Women cannot buy milk cheaper.
女性买不到更便宜的牛奶。
Women deserve to get paid for the work that you do.
女性应该为自己所做的工作获得报酬。
It's right!
没错！
And it's fair.
这是公平的。
Don't surrender, my friends.
不要投降，我的朋友们。
Those who have AIDS tonight, you deserve our compassion.
今晚那些艾滋病患者，你们值得我们同情。
Even with AIDS you must not surrender.
即使患有艾滋病，你也不能屈服。
In your wheelchairs.
坐在轮椅上。
I see you sitting here tonight in those wheelchairs.
我看到你今晚坐在轮椅上。
I've stayed with you.
我一直陪着你。
I've reached out to you across our Nation.
我已经向全国各地的你们伸出了援手。
And don't you give up.
并且你不要放弃。
I know it's tough sometimes.
我知道有时很难。
People look down on you.
人们看不起你。
It took you a little more effort to get here tonight.
今晚你花了更多的努力才到达这里。
And no one should look down on you, but sometimes mean people do.
没有人应该看不起你，但有时卑鄙的人却会看不起你。
The only justification we have for looking down on someone is that we're going to stop and pick them up.
我们看不起某人的唯一理由就是我们要停下来扶起他们。
But even in your wheelchairs, don't you give up.
但即使坐在轮椅上，也不要放弃。
We cannot forget 50 years ago when our backs were against the wall, Roosevelt was in a wheelchair.
我们不能忘记50年前，当我们背水一战时，罗斯福坐在轮椅上。
I would rather have Roosevelt in a wheelchair than Reagan and Bush on a horse.
我宁愿罗斯福坐在轮椅上，也不愿让里根和布什骑马。
Don't you surrender and don't you give up.
你不要投降，也不要放弃。
Don't surrender and don't give up!
不要投降，也不要放弃！
Why I cannot challenge you this way?
为什么我不能这样挑战你？
"Jesse Jackson, you don't understand my situation.
“杰西·杰克逊，你不了解我的处境。
You be on television.
你上电视了
You don't understand.
你不明白。
I see you with the big people.
我看到你和大人物在一起。
You don't understand my situation."
你不明白我的处境。”
I understand.
我明白。
You see me on TV, but you don't know the me that makes me, me.
你在电视上看到我，但你不知道造就我的我。
They wonder, "Why does Jesse run?" because they see me running for the White House.
他们想知道：“杰西为什么要跑步？”因为他们看到我竞选白宫。
They don't see the house I'm running from.
他们看不到我要逃离的房子。
I have a story.
我有一个故事。
I wasn't always on television.
我并不总是在电视上。
Writers were not always outside my door.
作家并不总是在我门外。
When I was born late one afternoon, October 8th, in Greenville, South Carolina, no writers asked my mother her name.
10 月 8 日的一天下午，当我出生在南卡罗来纳州格林维尔时，没有作家问过我母亲的名字。
Nobody chose to write down our address.
没有人选择写下我们的地址。
My mama was not supposed to make it, and I was not supposed to make it.
我妈妈不应该成功，我也不应该成功。
You see, I was born of a teen-age mother, who was born of a teen-age mother.
你看，我是一个十几岁的母亲所生的，我也是一个十几岁的母亲所生的。
I understand.
我明白。
I know abandonment, and people being mean to you, and saying you're nothing and nobody and can never be anything.
我知道被遗弃，人们对你很刻薄，说你什么都不是，没有人，永远不可能成为任何人。
I understand.
我明白。
Jesse Jackson is my third name.
杰西·杰克逊是我的第三个名字。
I'm adopted.
我是被领养的。
When I had no name, my grandmother gave me her name.
当我没有名字时，我的祖母给了我她的名字。
My name was Jesse Burns 'til I was 12.
12 岁之前我的名字叫杰西·伯恩斯 (Jesse Burns)。
So I wouldn't have a blank space, she gave me a name to hold me over.
所以我不会有空白，她给了我一个名字来容纳我。
I understand when nobody knows your name.
当没人知道你的名字时我能理解。
I understand when you have no name.
当你没有名字时我明白。
I understand.
我明白。
I wasn't born in the hospital.
我不是在医院出生的。
Mama didn't have insurance.
妈妈没有保险。
I was born in the bed at [the] house.
我出生在房子的床上。
I really do understand.
我真的很明白。
Born in a three-room house, bathroom in the backyard, slop jar by the bed, no hot and cold running water.
出生在三居室的房子里，浴室在后院，床边有污水罐，没有冷热自来水。
I understand.
我明白。
Wallpaper used for decoration?
壁纸是用来装饰的吗？
No. For a windbreaker.
不，对于风衣来说。
I understand.
我明白。
I'm a working person's person.
我是一个劳动人民的人。
That's why I understand you whether you're Black or White.
这就是为什么我理解你，无论你是黑人还是白人。
I understand work.
我理解工作。
I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.
我并不是含着金汤匙出生的。
I had a shovel programmed for my hand.
我为我的手设计了一把铲子。
My mother, a working woman.
我的母亲，一名职业女性。
So many of the days she went to work early, with runs in her stockings.
很多时候，她都早早去上班，袜子里都磨出了水痕。
She knew better, but she wore runs in her stockings so that my brother and I could have matching socks and not be laughed at at school.
她知道得更清楚，但她在袜子里穿了长筒袜，这样我和弟弟就可以有配套的袜子，而不会在学校被嘲笑。
I understand.
我明白。
At 3 o'clock on Thanksgiving Day, we couldn't eat turkey because momma was preparing somebody else's turkey at 3 o'clock.
感恩节那天下午三点，我们不能吃火鸡，因为妈妈三点钟正在准备别人的火鸡。
We had to play football to entertain ourselves.
我们必须踢足球来娱乐自己。
And then around 6 o'clock she would get off the Alta Vista bus and we would bring up the leftovers and eat our turkey -- leftovers, the carcass, the cranberries -- around 8 o'clock at night.
然后大约 6 点钟，她会从 Alta Vista 巴士上下来，我们会把剩菜带上来，吃我们的火鸡——剩菜、尸体、蔓越莓——晚上 8 点左右。
I really do understand.
我真的很明白。
Every one of these funny labels they put on you, those of you who are watching this broadcast tonight in the projects, on the corners, I understand.
他们给你们贴上的每一个有趣的标签，你们这些今晚在项目中、在角落里观看广播的人，我理解。
Call you outcast, low down, you can't make it, you're nothing, you're from nobody, subclass, underclass; when you see Jesse Jackson, when my name goes in nomination, your name goes in nomination.
说你是被遗弃者，卑鄙者，你无法成功，你什么都不是，你来自无名之辈，下层阶级，下层阶级；当你看到杰西·杰克逊时，当我的名字进入提名时，你的名字也进入提名。
I was born in the slum, but the slum was not born in me.
我出生在贫民窟，但贫民窟并不是我出生的。
And it wasn't born in you, and you can make it.
它不是与生俱来的，你可以做到。
Wherever you are tonight, you can make it.
今晚无论你在哪里，你都可以做到。
Hold your head high; stick your chest out.
昂首挺胸；挺起胸膛。
You can make it.
你可以做到的。
It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes.
有时天会黑，但黎明总会到来。
Don't you surrender!
你别投降！
Suffering breeds character, character breeds faith.
苦难孕育品格，品格孕育信仰。
In the end faith will not disappoint.
最终信念不会让人失望。
You must not surrender!
你绝对不能投降！
You may or may not get there but just know that you're qualified!
您可能会或可能不会到达那里，但只要知道您有资格即可！
And you hold on, and hold out!
而你坚持住，坚持住！
We must never surrender!!
我们决不能投降！！
America will get better and better.
美国会变得越来越好。
Keep hope alive.
保持希望。
Keep hope alive!
保持希望！
Keep hope alive!
保持希望！
On tomorrow night and beyond, keep hope alive!
明天晚上及以后，请保持希望！
I love you very much.
我非常爱你。
I love you very much.
我非常爱你。
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American Rhetoric.
美国修辞学。
HTML transcription by Michael E.
HTML 转录由 Michael E.
Eidenmuller, Angel Benton, & Eric Figueroa.
艾登米勒、安吉尔·本顿和埃里克·菲格罗亚。