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1、我有一个梦想(I Have a Dream)英文演讲稿我有一个梦想(I Have a Dream) 1963年8月23日，马丁路德金组织了美国历史上影响深远的“自由进军”运动。他率领一支庞大的游行队伍向首都华盛顿进军，为全美国的黑人争取人权。他在林肯纪念堂前向25万人发表了著名的演说我有一个梦想，为反对种族歧视、争取平等发出呼号。马丁路德金1964年获诺贝尔和平奖。1968年4月4日他在田纳西州被暗杀。在演说中，他说出了著名的平等口号：我梦想有一天，这个国家将会奋起，实现其立国信条的真谛：“我们认为这些真理不证自明：人人生而平等。”I have a dream that one day thi
2、s nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.我梦想有一天，在佐治亚州的红色山岗上，昔日奴隶的儿子能够同昔日奴隶主的儿子同席而坐，亲如手足。I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave own
3、ers will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.我梦想有一天，我的四个孩子将生活在一个不是以肤色的深浅，而是以品格的优劣作为评判标准的国家里。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.演讲全文：I Have a Drea
4、m by Martin Luther King, Jr.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 Proclamation. This momentous d
5、ecree 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 their captivity.But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Ne
6、gro 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 s
7、ociety and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so weve xxe here today to dramatize a shameful condition.In a sense weve xxe to our nations capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they we
8、re 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 promissor
9、y 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 xxe back marked insufficient funds.But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are
10、insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, weve xxe to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.We have also xxe to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to
11、 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 qui
12、cksands 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 the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negros legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigora
13、ting 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 Americ
14、a 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.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 t
15、he 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 pro
16、test 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 which has engulfed the Negro xxmunity 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 xxe to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they
