《I Have A Dream》歌词

[00:00:00] 演讲:Martin Luther King

[00:00:01] 名称:I Have a Dream

[00:00:01] I am happy to join with you today

[00:00:06] in what will go down in history as

[00:00:12] the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

[00:00:25] Five score years ago, a great American,

[00:00:32] in whose symbolic shadow we stand today,

[00:00:38] signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

[00:00:42] This momentous decree came as a great

[00:00:48] beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves

[00:00:53] who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.

[00:01:08] It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

[00:01:10] But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.

[00:01:19] One hundred years later,

[00:01:23] the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled

[00:01:28] by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

[00:01:34] One hundred years later,

[00:01:38] the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of

[00:01:44] a vast ocean of material prosperity.

[00:01:48] One hundred years later,

[00:01:54] the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society

[00:02:00] and finds himself an exile in his own land.

[00:02:05] And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

[00:02:13] In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check.

[00:02:18] When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words

[00:02:25] of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,

[00:02:30] they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

[00:02:38] This note was a promise that all men, yes,

[00:02:45] black men as well as white men,

[00:02:48] would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life,

[00:02:51] Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

[00:02:57] It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note,

[00:03:04] insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.

[00:03:07] Instead of honoring this sacred obligation,

[00:03:14] America has given the Negro people a bad check,

[00:03:19] a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

[00:03:35] But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

[00:03:43] We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds

[00:03:51] in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so,

[00:03:54] we've come to cash this check,

[00:03:55] a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom

[00:03:57] and the security of justice.

[00:04:10] We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of

[00:04:15] the fierce urgency of Now.

[00:04:20] This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off

[00:04:26] or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

[00:04:36] Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.

[00:04:42] Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation

[00:04:49] to the sunlit path of racial justice.

[00:04:52] Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands

[00:05:03] of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

[00:05:05] Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

[00:05:14] It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.

[00:05:20] This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent

[00:05:24] will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

[00:05:33] Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.

[00:05:38] And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam

[00:05:44] and will now be content will have a rude awakening

[00:05:48] if the nation returns to business as usual.

[00:06:06] And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America

[00:06:10] until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.

[00:06:15] The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations

[00:06:19] of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

[00:06:25] But there is something that I must say to my people,

[00:06:29] who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice:

[00:06:36] In the process of gaining our rightful place,

[00:06:41] we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.

[00:06:46] Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom

[00:06:50] by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

[00:07:02] We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

[00:07:08] We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

[00:07:17] Again and again,

[00:07:18] we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

[00:07:25] The marvelous new militancy

[00:07:28] which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust

[00:07:33] of all white people, for many of our white brothers,

[00:07:39] as evidenced by their presence here today,

[00:07:41] have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.

[00:07:56] And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

[00:08:00] We cannot walk alone.

[00:08:01] And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

[00:08:12] We cannot turn back.

[00:08:15] There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights,

[00:08:19] "When will you be satisfied?"

[00:08:22] We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the

[00:08:26] victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

[00:08:31] We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies,

[00:08:37] heavy with the fatigue of travel,

[00:08:40] cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways

[00:08:43] and the hotels of the cities.

[00:08:52] We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi

[00:08:56] cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.

[00:09:09] No, no, we are not satisfied,

[00:09:13] and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters,

[00:09:18] and righteousness like a mighty stream."

[00:09:28] I am not unmindful that some of you have come here

[00:09:37] out of great trials and tribulations.

[00:09:43] Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.

[00:09:47] And some of you have come from areas where your quest --

[00:09:50] quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution

[00:09:58] and staggered by the winds of police brutality.

[00:10:03] You have been the veterans of creative suffering.

[00:10:06] Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

[00:10:16] Go back to Mississippi,

[00:10:17] go back to Alabama,

[00:10:19] go back to South Carolina,

[00:10:21] go back to Georgia,

[00:10:22] go back to Louisiana,

[00:10:23] go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities,

[00:10:29] knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

[00:10:34] Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

[00:10:51] And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,

[00:10:58] I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

[00:11:07] I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up

[00:11:21] and live out the true meaning of its creed:

[00:11:22] "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

[00:11:35] I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia,

[00:11:42] the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners

[00:11:48] will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

[00:11:52] I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,

[00:11:59] a state sweltering with the heat of injustice,

[00:12:06] sweltering with the heat of oppression,

[00:12:09] will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

[00:12:14] I have a dream that my four little children will one day

[00:12:22] live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin

[00:12:26] but by the content of their character.

[00:12:29] I have a dream today!

[00:12:40] I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama,

[00:12:47] with its vicious racists,

[00:12:50] with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition"

[00:12:55] and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys

[00:13:00] and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys

[00:13:04] and white girls as sisters and brothers.

[00:13:07] I have a dream today!

[00:13:16] I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,

[00:13:20] and every hill and mountain shall be made low,

[00:13:23] the rough places will be made plain,

[00:13:25] and the crooked places will be made straight;

[00:13:28] "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."?

[00:13:33] This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

[00:13:39] With this faith,

[00:13:41] we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

[00:13:47] With this faith,

[00:13:48] we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a

[00:13:53] beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith,

[00:13:58] we will be able to work together,

[00:14:00] to pray together,

[00:14:00] to struggle together,

[00:14:02] to go to jail together,

[00:14:04] to stand up for freedom together,

[00:14:06] knowing that we will be free one day.

[00:14:11] And this will be the day

[00:14:14] this will be the day when all of God's children

[00:14:18] will be able to sing with new meaning:

[00:14:21] My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

[00:14:27] Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

[00:14:31] From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

[00:14:35] And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

[00:14:40] And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

[00:14:46] Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

[00:14:50] Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

[00:14:55] Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

[00:15:00] Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

[00:15:05] But not only that:

[00:15:06] Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

[00:15:11] Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

[00:15:15] Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

[00:15:21] From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

[00:15:25] And when this happens,

[00:15:30] when we allow freedom ring,

[00:15:33] when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,

[00:15:36] from every state and every city,

[00:15:41] we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children,

[00:15:45] black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,

[00:15:50] will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

[00:15:57] Free at last!

[00:15:58] free at last!

[00:15:59] Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!