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发信人: rex (一生悬命), 信区: English
标 题: Famous Speech(4)
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Thu Jul 16 09:59:42 1998), 站内信件
作 家: oli (西西 ) on board 'english'
题 目: Famous Speech (4)
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日 期: Sat Aug 2 21:39:37 1997
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发信人: scyz (该走就走喽^_^), 信区: ENGLISH
标 题: Famous Speech(4)
发信站: 碧海青天 (Wed Jul 30 03:08:09 1997), 转信
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 years scores ago,a great American,in whose symbolic shadow we
stand,signed the Emancipation Proclamation.This momentous decree came
as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been
seared in the flames of withering justice.It came as a joyous daybreak
to end the long night of capacity.
But one hundred years later,we must face the tragic fact that Negro
is not still free.One hundresd years later,the life of the Negro is still
saddly cripped by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discri-
mination.one hundred years later,the Negro lives in a lonly island of
poverty in the midest of a vast ocean of material prosperity.One hundred
years later,the Negro is still laughting in the corners of American society
and finds himself an exile in his own land.so we have come here to dramize
an appalling condition.
in a sense we have come to our nation's Capital to cash a check.
when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the
Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,they was signing a
promissionary note to which every american was to fall heir.This note
was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights
of life,liberty,and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that American has defaulted on this promissory
note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.Instead of honoring
this sacred obligation,American has given the Negro people a bad check
a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds".But we refuse to
believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity
of his nation.So we have come to cash this check--a check that will give
us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.We have
also come to this hollowed spot to remind American of the fierce urgency
of now.This is not time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to
take the tranquilizing drug of gradulism.Now is the time to rise from
the dark and desolate valley of ssegregation 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.
but there is something that i must say to my people who stand on the
warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice.In the process of
gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
Lets us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the
cup of bitterness and hatred.We must forever conduct our struggle on
the high plane of dignity and displince.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.T he marvellous new
millitary which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to
a distrust of all white people,for many of white brothers,as evidenced
by their presence here today,have come to realize that their destiny
is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to
our freedom.We cannot work alone.
I say to you today ,my friends,that in spite of the difficulties
and frustration of the momemt I must still have a dream.It is a dream
deeply rooted in the Americam dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out
the true meaning of its creed:" we hold this these truths to be self-
evident;that all men are created equal.
This is our hope.this is the faith with which I returned to the South.
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair
a stone of hope .with this faithwe will be able to transform the jangling
discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.With
this faith we will be able to work to jail together ,to pray together ,
to struggle together , to stand up for freedom together ,knowing that
we will be free one day.
When we let freedom ring ,when we let it ring from every hamlet ,
from every state and every city,we will be able to speed up that day
when all of God's children ,black man and white man ,jews and Gentiles,
Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words
of the old Negrospirtual,"Free at last !free at last!thank God almighty,
we are free at last!"
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