歌曲 | I Have A Dream |
歌手 | Cristy Lane |
专辑 | Country Classics Vol.II & III |
下载 | Image LRC TXT |
[00:00.01] | 演讲:Martin Luther King |
[00:01.40] | 名称:I Have a Dream |
[00:01.50] | |
[00:01.86] | I am happy to join with you today |
[00:06.75] | in what will go down in history as |
[00:12.58] | the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. |
[00:25.10] | |
[00:25.83] | Five score years ago, a great American, |
[00:32.20] | in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, |
[00:38.85] | signed the Emancipation Proclamation. |
[00:42.84] | This momentous decree came as a great |
[00:48.69] | beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves |
[00:53.27] | who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. |
[01:08.11] | It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. |
[01:08.55] | |
[01:10.48] | But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. |
[01:19.59] | One hundred years later, |
[01:23.60] | the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled |
[01:28.83] | by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. |
[01:34.52] | One hundred years later, |
[01:38.68] | the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of |
[01:44.82] | a vast ocean of material prosperity. |
[01:48.79] | One hundred years later, |
[01:54.30] | the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society |
[02:00.82] | and finds himself an exile in his own land. |
[02:05.90] | And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. |
[02:12.71] | |
[02:13.56] | In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. |
[02:18.87] | When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words |
[02:25.11] | of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, |
[02:30.80] | they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. |
[02:38.55] | This note was a promise that all men, yes, |
[02:45.07] | black men as well as white men, |
[02:48.37] | would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, |
[02:51.71] | Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." |
[02:57.13] | It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, |
[03:04.10] | insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. |
[03:07.96] | Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, |
[03:14.98] | America has given the Negro people a bad check, |
[03:19.76] | a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." |
[03:26.73] | |
[03:35.82] | But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. |
[03:43.81] | We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds |
[03:51.07] | in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, |
[03:54.57] | we've come to cash this check, |
[03:55.58] | a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom |
[03:57.97] | and the security of justice. |
[04:07.33] | |
[04:10.07] | We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of |
[04:15.78] | the fierce urgency of Now. |
[04:20.10] | This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off |
[04:26.17] | or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. |
[04:36.01] | Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. |
[04:42.81] | Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation |
[04:49.53] | to the sunlit path of racial justice. |
[04:52.73] | Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands |
[05:03.58] | of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. |
[05:05.07] | Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. |
[05:12.72] | |
[05:14.13] | It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. |
[05:20.00] | This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent |
[05:24.66] | will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. |
[05:33.46] | Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. |
[05:38.98] | And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam |
[05:44.27] | and will now be content will have a rude awakening |
[05:48.64] | if the nation returns to business as usual. |
[06:06.57] | And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America |
[06:10.70] | until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. |
[06:15.36] | The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations |
[06:19.26] | of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. |
[06:25.64] | |
[06:25.98] | But there is something that I must say to my people, |
[06:29.27] | who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: |
[06:36.35] | In the process of gaining our rightful place, |
[06:41.10] | we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. |
[06:46.25] | Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom |
[06:50.12] | by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. |
[07:02.93] | We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. |
[07:08.86] | We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. |
[07:17.20] | Again and again, |
[07:18.23] | we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. |
[07:25.07] | |
[07:25.39] | The marvelous new militancy |
[07:28.10] | which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust |
[07:33.61] | of all white people, for many of our white brothers, |
[07:39.91] | as evidenced by their presence here today, |
[07:41.46] | have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. |
[07:56.56] | And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. |
[07:59.65] | |
[08:00.18] | We cannot walk alone. |
[08:00.96] | |
[08:01.44] | And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. |
[08:02.67] | |
[08:12.24] | We cannot turn back. |
[08:13.27] | |
[08:15.45] | There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, |
[08:19.69] | "When will you be satisfied?" |
[08:22.67] | We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the |
[08:26.53] | victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. |
[08:31.92] | We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, |
[08:37.27] | heavy with the fatigue of travel, |
[08:40.45] | cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways |
[08:43.70] | and the hotels of the cities. |
[08:51.06] | |
[08:52.26] | We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi |
[08:56.45] | cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. |
[09:09.16] | No, no, we are not satisfied, |
[09:13.42] | and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, |
[09:18.61] | and righteousness like a mighty stream." |
[09:23.64] | |
[09:28.67] | I am not unmindful that some of you have come here |
[09:37.52] | out of great trials and tribulations. |
[09:43.08] | Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. |
[09:47.63] | And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- |
[09:50.88] | quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution |
[09:58.01] | and staggered by the winds of police brutality. |
[10:03.63] | You have been the veterans of creative suffering. |
[10:06.20] | Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. |
[10:15.51] | |
[10:16.50] | Go back to Mississippi, |
[10:17.90] | go back to Alabama, |
[10:19.47] | go back to South Carolina, |
[10:21.06] | go back to Georgia, |
[10:22.48] | go back to Louisiana, |
[10:23.93] | go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, |
[10:29.21] | knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. |
[10:34.47] | |
[10:34.77] | Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. |
[10:43.63] | |
[10:51.64] | And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, |
[10:58.70] | I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. |
[11:06.92] | |
[11:07.49] | I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up |
[11:21.00] | and live out the true meaning of its creed: |
[11:22.30] | "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." |
[11:34.84] | |
[11:35.28] | I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, |
[11:42.21] | the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners |
[11:48.16] | will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. |
[11:52.02] | |
[11:52.29] | I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, |
[11:59.10] | a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, |
[12:06.02] | sweltering with the heat of oppression, |
[12:09.51] | will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. |
[12:13.69] | |
[12:14.01] | I have a dream that my four little children will one day |
[12:22.63] | live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin |
[12:26.63] | but by the content of their character. |
[12:28.79] | |
[12:29.11] | I have a dream today! |
[12:38.85] | |
[12:40.14] | I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, |
[12:47.80] | with its vicious racists, |
[12:50.26] | with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" |
[12:55.21] | and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys |
[13:00.09] | and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys |
[13:04.28] | and white girls as sisters and brothers. |
[13:06.73] | |
[13:07.16] | I have a dream today! |
[13:15.76] | |
[13:16.03] | I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, |
[13:20.95] | and every hill and mountain shall be made low, |
[13:23.69] | the rough places will be made plain, |
[13:25.82] | and the crooked places will be made straight; |
[13:28.25] | "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."? |
[13:33.83] | This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. |
[13:39.57] | |
[13:39.82] | With this faith, |
[13:41.65] | we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. |
[13:47.04] | With this faith, |
[13:48.94] | we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a |
[13:53.61] | beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, |
[13:58.27] | we will be able to work together, |
[14:00.10] | to pray together, |
[14:00.75] | to struggle together, |
[14:02.30] | to go to jail together, |
[14:04.16] | to stand up for freedom together, |
[14:06.40] | knowing that we will be free one day. |
[14:09.42] | |
[14:11.10] | And this will be the day |
[14:14.57] | this will be the day when all of God's children |
[14:18.41] | will be able to sing with new meaning: |
[14:20.78] | |
[14:21.07] | My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. |
[14:26.66] | |
[14:27.21] | Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, |
[14:31.59] | |
[14:31.91] | From every mountainside, let freedom ring! |
[14:35.44] | |
[14:35.87] | And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. |
[14:40.43] | |
[14:40.65] | And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. |
[14:46.10] | |
[14:46.33] | Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. |
[14:50.26] | |
[14:50.57] | Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. |
[14:55.65] | |
[14:55.92] | Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. |
[14:58.99] | |
[15:00.54] | Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. |
[15:04.85] | |
[15:05.04] | But not only that: |
[15:06.31] | |
[15:06.64] | Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. |
[15:11.28] | |
[15:11.66] | Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. |
[15:15.71] | Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. |
[15:21.40] | |
[15:21.69] | From every mountainside, let freedom ring. |
[15:25.08] | |
[15:25.65] | And when this happens, |
[15:30.75] | when we allow freedom ring, |
[15:33.85] | when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, |
[15:36.93] | from every state and every city, |
[15:40.88] | |
[15:41.11] | we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, |
[15:45.63] | black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, |
[15:50.11] | will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: |
[15:57.70] | Free at last! |
[15:58.05] | free at last! |
[15:59.29] | Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! |
[16:01.02] | (the end) |
[00:00.01] | yan jiang: Martin Luther King |
[00:01.40] | ming cheng: I Have a Dream |
[00:01.50] | |
[00:01.86] | I am happy to join with you today |
[00:06.75] | in what will go down in history as |
[00:12.58] | the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. |
[00:25.10] | |
[00:25.83] | Five score years ago, a great American, |
[00:32.20] | in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, |
[00:38.85] | signed the Emancipation Proclamation. |
[00:42.84] | This momentous decree came as a great |
[00:48.69] | beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves |
[00:53.27] | who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. |
[01:08.11] | It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. |
[01:08.55] | |
[01:10.48] | But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. |
[01:19.59] | One hundred years later, |
[01:23.60] | the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled |
[01:28.83] | by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. |
[01:34.52] | One hundred years later, |
[01:38.68] | the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of |
[01:44.82] | a vast ocean of material prosperity. |
[01:48.79] | One hundred years later, |
[01:54.30] | the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society |
[02:00.82] | and finds himself an exile in his own land. |
[02:05.90] | And so we' ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. |
[02:12.71] | |
[02:13.56] | In a sense we' ve come to our nation' s capital to cash a check. |
[02:18.87] | When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words |
[02:25.11] | of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, |
[02:30.80] | they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. |
[02:38.55] | This note was a promise that all men, yes, |
[02:45.07] | black men as well as white men, |
[02:48.37] | would be guaranteed the " unalienable Rights" of " Life, |
[02:51.71] | Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." |
[02:57.13] | It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, |
[03:04.10] | insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. |
[03:07.96] | Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, |
[03:14.98] | America has given the Negro people a bad check, |
[03:19.76] | a check which has come back marked " insufficient funds." |
[03:26.73] | |
[03:35.82] | But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. |
[03:43.81] | We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds |
[03:51.07] | in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, |
[03:54.57] | we' ve come to cash this check, |
[03:55.58] | a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom |
[03:57.97] | and the security of justice. |
[04:07.33] | |
[04:10.07] | We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of |
[04:15.78] | the fierce urgency of Now. |
[04:20.10] | This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off |
[04:26.17] | or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. |
[04:36.01] | Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. |
[04:42.81] | Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation |
[04:49.53] | to the sunlit path of racial justice. |
[04:52.73] | Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands |
[05:03.58] | of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. |
[05:05.07] | Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God' s children. |
[05:12.72] | |
[05:14.13] | It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. |
[05:20.00] | This sweltering summer of the Negro' s legitimate discontent |
[05:24.66] | will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. |
[05:33.46] | Nineteen sixtythree is not an end, but a beginning. |
[05:38.98] | And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam |
[05:44.27] | and will now be content will have a rude awakening |
[05:48.64] | if the nation returns to business as usual. |
[06:06.57] | And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America |
[06:10.70] | until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. |
[06:15.36] | The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations |
[06:19.26] | of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. |
[06:25.64] | |
[06:25.98] | But there is something that I must say to my people, |
[06:29.27] | who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: |
[06:36.35] | In the process of gaining our rightful place, |
[06:41.10] | we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. |
[06:46.25] | Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom |
[06:50.12] | by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. |
[07:02.93] | We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. |
[07:08.86] | We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. |
[07:17.20] | Again and again, |
[07:18.23] | we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. |
[07:25.07] | |
[07:25.39] | The marvelous new militancy |
[07:28.10] | which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust |
[07:33.61] | of all white people, for many of our white brothers, |
[07:39.91] | as evidenced by their presence here today, |
[07:41.46] | have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. |
[07:56.56] | And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. |
[07:59.65] | |
[08:00.18] | We cannot walk alone. |
[08:00.96] | |
[08:01.44] | And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. |
[08:02.67] | |
[08:12.24] | We cannot turn back. |
[08:13.27] | |
[08:15.45] | There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, |
[08:19.69] | " When will you be satisfied?" |
[08:22.67] | We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the |
[08:26.53] | victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. |
[08:31.92] | We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, |
[08:37.27] | heavy with the fatigue of travel, |
[08:40.45] | cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways |
[08:43.70] | and the hotels of the cities. |
[08:51.06] | |
[08:52.26] | We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi |
[08:56.45] | cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. |
[09:09.16] | No, no, we are not satisfied, |
[09:13.42] | and we will not be satisfied until " justice rolls down like waters, |
[09:18.61] | and righteousness like a mighty stream." |
[09:23.64] | |
[09:28.67] | I am not unmindful that some of you have come here |
[09:37.52] | out of great trials and tribulations. |
[09:43.08] | Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. |
[09:47.63] | And some of you have come from areas where your quest |
[09:50.88] | quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution |
[09:58.01] | and staggered by the winds of police brutality. |
[10:03.63] | You have been the veterans of creative suffering. |
[10:06.20] | Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. |
[10:15.51] | |
[10:16.50] | Go back to Mississippi, |
[10:17.90] | go back to Alabama, |
[10:19.47] | go back to South Carolina, |
[10:21.06] | go back to Georgia, |
[10:22.48] | go back to Louisiana, |
[10:23.93] | go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, |
[10:29.21] | knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. |
[10:34.47] | |
[10:34.77] | Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. |
[10:43.63] | |
[10:51.64] | And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, |
[10:58.70] | I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. |
[11:06.92] | |
[11:07.49] | I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up |
[11:21.00] | and live out the true meaning of its creed: |
[11:22.30] | " We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal." |
[11:34.84] | |
[11:35.28] | I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, |
[11:42.21] | the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners |
[11:48.16] | will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. |
[11:52.02] | |
[11:52.29] | I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, |
[11:59.10] | a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, |
[12:06.02] | sweltering with the heat of oppression, |
[12:09.51] | will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. |
[12:13.69] | |
[12:14.01] | I have a dream that my four little children will one day |
[12:22.63] | live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin |
[12:26.63] | but by the content of their character. |
[12:28.79] | |
[12:29.11] | I have a dream today! |
[12:38.85] | |
[12:40.14] | I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, |
[12:47.80] | with its vicious racists, |
[12:50.26] | with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of " interposition" |
[12:55.21] | and " nullification" one day right there in Alabama little black boys |
[13:00.09] | and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys |
[13:04.28] | and white girls as sisters and brothers. |
[13:06.73] | |
[13:07.16] | I have a dream today! |
[13:15.76] | |
[13:16.03] | I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, |
[13:20.95] | and every hill and mountain shall be made low, |
[13:23.69] | the rough places will be made plain, |
[13:25.82] | and the crooked places will be made straight |
[13:28.25] | " and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."? |
[13:33.83] | This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. |
[13:39.57] | |
[13:39.82] | With this faith, |
[13:41.65] | we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. |
[13:47.04] | With this faith, |
[13:48.94] | we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a |
[13:53.61] | beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, |
[13:58.27] | we will be able to work together, |
[14:00.10] | to pray together, |
[14:00.75] | to struggle together, |
[14:02.30] | to go to jail together, |
[14:04.16] | to stand up for freedom together, |
[14:06.40] | knowing that we will be free one day. |
[14:09.42] | |
[14:11.10] | And this will be the day |
[14:14.57] | this will be the day when all of God' s children |
[14:18.41] | will be able to sing with new meaning: |
[14:20.78] | |
[14:21.07] | My country ' tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. |
[14:26.66] | |
[14:27.21] | Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim' s pride, |
[14:31.59] | |
[14:31.91] | From every mountainside, let freedom ring! |
[14:35.44] | |
[14:35.87] | And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. |
[14:40.43] | |
[14:40.65] | And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. |
[14:46.10] | |
[14:46.33] | Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. |
[14:50.26] | |
[14:50.57] | Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. |
[14:55.65] | |
[14:55.92] | Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado. |
[14:58.99] | |
[15:00.54] | Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. |
[15:04.85] | |
[15:05.04] | But not only that: |
[15:06.31] | |
[15:06.64] | Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. |
[15:11.28] | |
[15:11.66] | Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. |
[15:15.71] | Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. |
[15:21.40] | |
[15:21.69] | From every mountainside, let freedom ring. |
[15:25.08] | |
[15:25.65] | And when this happens, |
[15:30.75] | when we allow freedom ring, |
[15:33.85] | when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, |
[15:36.93] | from every state and every city, |
[15:40.88] | |
[15:41.11] | we will be able to speed up that day when all of God' s children, |
[15:45.63] | black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, |
[15:50.11] | will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: |
[15:57.70] | Free at last! |
[15:58.05] | free at last! |
[15:59.29] | Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! |
[16:01.02] | the end |
[00:00.01] | yǎn jiǎng: Martin Luther King |
[00:01.40] | míng chēng: I Have a Dream |
[00:01.50] | |
[00:01.86] | I am happy to join with you today |
[00:06.75] | in what will go down in history as |
[00:12.58] | the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. |
[00:25.10] | |
[00:25.83] | Five score years ago, a great American, |
[00:32.20] | in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, |
[00:38.85] | signed the Emancipation Proclamation. |
[00:42.84] | This momentous decree came as a great |
[00:48.69] | beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves |
[00:53.27] | who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. |
[01:08.11] | It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. |
[01:08.55] | |
[01:10.48] | But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. |
[01:19.59] | One hundred years later, |
[01:23.60] | the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled |
[01:28.83] | by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. |
[01:34.52] | One hundred years later, |
[01:38.68] | the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of |
[01:44.82] | a vast ocean of material prosperity. |
[01:48.79] | One hundred years later, |
[01:54.30] | the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society |
[02:00.82] | and finds himself an exile in his own land. |
[02:05.90] | And so we' ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. |
[02:12.71] | |
[02:13.56] | In a sense we' ve come to our nation' s capital to cash a check. |
[02:18.87] | When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words |
[02:25.11] | of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, |
[02:30.80] | they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. |
[02:38.55] | This note was a promise that all men, yes, |
[02:45.07] | black men as well as white men, |
[02:48.37] | would be guaranteed the " unalienable Rights" of " Life, |
[02:51.71] | Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." |
[02:57.13] | It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, |
[03:04.10] | insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. |
[03:07.96] | Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, |
[03:14.98] | America has given the Negro people a bad check, |
[03:19.76] | a check which has come back marked " insufficient funds." |
[03:26.73] | |
[03:35.82] | But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. |
[03:43.81] | We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds |
[03:51.07] | in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, |
[03:54.57] | we' ve come to cash this check, |
[03:55.58] | a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom |
[03:57.97] | and the security of justice. |
[04:07.33] | |
[04:10.07] | We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of |
[04:15.78] | the fierce urgency of Now. |
[04:20.10] | This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off |
[04:26.17] | or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. |
[04:36.01] | Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. |
[04:42.81] | Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation |
[04:49.53] | to the sunlit path of racial justice. |
[04:52.73] | Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands |
[05:03.58] | of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. |
[05:05.07] | Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God' s children. |
[05:12.72] | |
[05:14.13] | It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. |
[05:20.00] | This sweltering summer of the Negro' s legitimate discontent |
[05:24.66] | will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. |
[05:33.46] | Nineteen sixtythree is not an end, but a beginning. |
[05:38.98] | And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam |
[05:44.27] | and will now be content will have a rude awakening |
[05:48.64] | if the nation returns to business as usual. |
[06:06.57] | And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America |
[06:10.70] | until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. |
[06:15.36] | The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations |
[06:19.26] | of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. |
[06:25.64] | |
[06:25.98] | But there is something that I must say to my people, |
[06:29.27] | who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: |
[06:36.35] | In the process of gaining our rightful place, |
[06:41.10] | we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. |
[06:46.25] | Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom |
[06:50.12] | by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. |
[07:02.93] | We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. |
[07:08.86] | We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. |
[07:17.20] | Again and again, |
[07:18.23] | we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. |
[07:25.07] | |
[07:25.39] | The marvelous new militancy |
[07:28.10] | which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust |
[07:33.61] | of all white people, for many of our white brothers, |
[07:39.91] | as evidenced by their presence here today, |
[07:41.46] | have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. |
[07:56.56] | And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. |
[07:59.65] | |
[08:00.18] | We cannot walk alone. |
[08:00.96] | |
[08:01.44] | And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. |
[08:02.67] | |
[08:12.24] | We cannot turn back. |
[08:13.27] | |
[08:15.45] | There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, |
[08:19.69] | " When will you be satisfied?" |
[08:22.67] | We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the |
[08:26.53] | victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. |
[08:31.92] | We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, |
[08:37.27] | heavy with the fatigue of travel, |
[08:40.45] | cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways |
[08:43.70] | and the hotels of the cities. |
[08:51.06] | |
[08:52.26] | We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi |
[08:56.45] | cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. |
[09:09.16] | No, no, we are not satisfied, |
[09:13.42] | and we will not be satisfied until " justice rolls down like waters, |
[09:18.61] | and righteousness like a mighty stream." |
[09:23.64] | |
[09:28.67] | I am not unmindful that some of you have come here |
[09:37.52] | out of great trials and tribulations. |
[09:43.08] | Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. |
[09:47.63] | And some of you have come from areas where your quest |
[09:50.88] | quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution |
[09:58.01] | and staggered by the winds of police brutality. |
[10:03.63] | You have been the veterans of creative suffering. |
[10:06.20] | Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. |
[10:15.51] | |
[10:16.50] | Go back to Mississippi, |
[10:17.90] | go back to Alabama, |
[10:19.47] | go back to South Carolina, |
[10:21.06] | go back to Georgia, |
[10:22.48] | go back to Louisiana, |
[10:23.93] | go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, |
[10:29.21] | knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. |
[10:34.47] | |
[10:34.77] | Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. |
[10:43.63] | |
[10:51.64] | And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, |
[10:58.70] | I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. |
[11:06.92] | |
[11:07.49] | I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up |
[11:21.00] | and live out the true meaning of its creed: |
[11:22.30] | " We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal." |
[11:34.84] | |
[11:35.28] | I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, |
[11:42.21] | the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners |
[11:48.16] | will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. |
[11:52.02] | |
[11:52.29] | I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, |
[11:59.10] | a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, |
[12:06.02] | sweltering with the heat of oppression, |
[12:09.51] | will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. |
[12:13.69] | |
[12:14.01] | I have a dream that my four little children will one day |
[12:22.63] | live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin |
[12:26.63] | but by the content of their character. |
[12:28.79] | |
[12:29.11] | I have a dream today! |
[12:38.85] | |
[12:40.14] | I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, |
[12:47.80] | with its vicious racists, |
[12:50.26] | with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of " interposition" |
[12:55.21] | and " nullification" one day right there in Alabama little black boys |
[13:00.09] | and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys |
[13:04.28] | and white girls as sisters and brothers. |
[13:06.73] | |
[13:07.16] | I have a dream today! |
[13:15.76] | |
[13:16.03] | I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, |
[13:20.95] | and every hill and mountain shall be made low, |
[13:23.69] | the rough places will be made plain, |
[13:25.82] | and the crooked places will be made straight |
[13:28.25] | " and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."? |
[13:33.83] | This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. |
[13:39.57] | |
[13:39.82] | With this faith, |
[13:41.65] | we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. |
[13:47.04] | With this faith, |
[13:48.94] | we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a |
[13:53.61] | beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, |
[13:58.27] | we will be able to work together, |
[14:00.10] | to pray together, |
[14:00.75] | to struggle together, |
[14:02.30] | to go to jail together, |
[14:04.16] | to stand up for freedom together, |
[14:06.40] | knowing that we will be free one day. |
[14:09.42] | |
[14:11.10] | And this will be the day |
[14:14.57] | this will be the day when all of God' s children |
[14:18.41] | will be able to sing with new meaning: |
[14:20.78] | |
[14:21.07] | My country ' tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. |
[14:26.66] | |
[14:27.21] | Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim' s pride, |
[14:31.59] | |
[14:31.91] | From every mountainside, let freedom ring! |
[14:35.44] | |
[14:35.87] | And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. |
[14:40.43] | |
[14:40.65] | And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. |
[14:46.10] | |
[14:46.33] | Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. |
[14:50.26] | |
[14:50.57] | Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. |
[14:55.65] | |
[14:55.92] | Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado. |
[14:58.99] | |
[15:00.54] | Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. |
[15:04.85] | |
[15:05.04] | But not only that: |
[15:06.31] | |
[15:06.64] | Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. |
[15:11.28] | |
[15:11.66] | Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. |
[15:15.71] | Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. |
[15:21.40] | |
[15:21.69] | From every mountainside, let freedom ring. |
[15:25.08] | |
[15:25.65] | And when this happens, |
[15:30.75] | when we allow freedom ring, |
[15:33.85] | when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, |
[15:36.93] | from every state and every city, |
[15:40.88] | |
[15:41.11] | we will be able to speed up that day when all of God' s children, |
[15:45.63] | black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, |
[15:50.11] | will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: |
[15:57.70] | Free at last! |
[15:58.05] | free at last! |
[15:59.29] | Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! |
[16:01.02] | the end |