2024年6月6日发(作者：)

马丁路德金英语课文原文

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 score years

ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, 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

injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of bad

one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life

of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains

of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of

poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later,

the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself

an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful a

sense we've 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 were signing a promissory note to which every American

was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as

white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the

pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this

promissory 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."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, we've come to cash this

check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the

security of have also come to this hallowed 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 drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the

promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate 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 God's would be fatal for the

nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the

Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating 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

will 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 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. Let 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 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 marvelous new militancy

which 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