大学精品课件：I have a dream.doc

1、 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: “I Have A Dream” I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation(解放) Proclam

2、ation(宣言). This momentous(重要的) decree(法令)came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering 枯萎 injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity (奴役). But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.

3、 One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles(镣铐) of segregation (隔离)and the chains of discrimination(歧视). One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity（繁荣）. One hundred years later

4、, the Negro is still languished （痛苦）in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so weve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense weve come to our nations capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent （壮美

5、的）words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir （继承者） . This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable （不可剥夺的）Rights“ of “Life, Liberty and t

6、he pursuit of Happiness.“ It is obvious today that America has defaulted 违约 on this promissory （约定的）note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds

7、.“But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, weve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We

8、 have also come to this hallowed 神圣的 spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing 镇静 drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desol

9、ate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of Gods children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of

10、 the moment. This sweltering （炙热的）summer of the Negros legitimate （合法的）discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating（鼓舞） autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content w

11、ill have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. Bu

12、t there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold （门槛）which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterne

13、ss and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy w

14、hich 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. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably b

15、ound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. 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 uns

16、peakable horrors of police brutality. 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. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negros basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger on

17、e. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by a sign 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. No, no, we are

18、 not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.“ I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from are

19、as where your quest,quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution(迫害) and staggered by the winds of police brutality(凶残). You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive(救赎的). Go back to Mississippi,go back to

20、 Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums (贫民窟) and ghettos(贫民窟)of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even thoug

21、h we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be selfevident (不言而喻的),that all men are created equal.“

22、 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. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering

23、with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! I have a dream that o

24、ne day, down in Alabama, with its vicious(邪恶的) racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition“ (干涉)and “nullification“(取消)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 sister

25、s and brothers. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, (赞扬的)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

26、 it together.“ This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling (刺耳的)discords(争吵) of our nation into a beautiful symphony of bro

27、therhood. 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. And this will be the day this will be the day when all of Gods children will be able to sing with new m

28、eaning: My country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims (朝圣者)pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring! And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Ha

29、mpshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous(曲线美的) slopes of California. But not only that: Let freedom ring from Ston

30、e Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every

31、state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Gods children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles(异教 徒), Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!