[烛光生存狂]-纪念马丁·路德·金遇刺40年重温经典演讲

　　纪念马丁·路德·金遇刺40年重温经典演讲《I have a dream》我有一个梦想

　　　　(刚从珠海那和同学逛了两天回来，补上这一帖）

　　　　 40年前的4月4日，美国黑人民权运动领导人马丁·路德·金在田纳西州孟菲斯市的洛兰汽车旅馆二楼他卧室外的阳台上被枪杀，这位和印度圣雄甘地一样以非暴力不合作方式坚持为自己的黑皮肤同胞争取公平正义权利的领袖，倒下了。

　　　　但黑人们追求自由平等的脚步并没有停止，40年过去了，黑人们在争取民权和道路上取得了巨大的进步，而且仍在不断奋斗着。今天，畅销书《愚蠢的白人》曾经能够占据《纽约时报》、《出版家周刊》等畅销书排行榜的顶端，而要是哪个白人敢说一句 Negro黑鬼，那就是经常听到的种族歧视罪----------这就是进步！！！这就是美国民主制度的自我纠错更新完善！这就是言论自由、集会自由、示威游行自由的作用和意义！

　　　　有人说美国的历史就是一部追求自由的历史，确实是很有道理的，自由女神手中那不灭的火炬至今仍在不断照耀着美利坚的每一个角落，甚至于照耀整个世界。God bless America! The star flag flutters.

　　　　可怜我们受户口制度限制受人歧视程度远比美国黑人甚至比当年南非种族隔离更甚的农民们，一生来其农村户口就注定要在经济政治精神上受歧视，负担最重的赋税却享受最低的福利。但他们连说话上街游行示威都被禁止，更不可能有马丁路德这样的领袖存在；最勤劳善良的人同时也是最能忍气吞声的人，有人说中国人只要还有一口饭吃就不会起来造反，但三年大饥荒饿死几千万人时怎么不见得有人起义？？？。。。

　　　　当然远不止农民没有人权民权，中国人自己分三六九等，“一等公民是公仆，子子孙孙享清福；二等公民搞承包，吃喝嫖赌全报销；三等公民当个体，骗了老张骗小李；四等公民坐机关，抽了塔山品毛尖；五等公民大盖帽，吃穷被告吃原告；六等公民手术刀，划开肚皮取红包；七等公民交警队，马路旁边吃社会；八等公民是律师，发财全靠打官司；九等公民是园丁，鱿鱼海参分不清；十等公民主人公，老老实实学雷锋”（民谣）。。。。其实没有哪一等人真正获得“人”的尊严，在一个不平等不自由人吃人的社会，没有人是真正“站起来”的。人必自侮而后人侮之，外国人看不起中国人、中国人在外族面前自卑当然不可避免。

　　　　正如马丁路德在这篇演讲中说到的："If America wants to be a great nation,this must become true!"（如果美国要成为一个伟大的国家，那么这（指种族平等）是必须要实现的。）其实哪一个国家要真正实现繁荣富强、实现真正的崛起，可以不要平等自由呢？

　　　　这篇可能是人类历史最经典最伟大的演讲，修辞上多用比喻排比，气势磅礴，从文学上来讲同样是一篇难得的美文。高三时曾经听N遍精读过而且背诵过大部分，里面一些经典的句子现在仍然能背诵：I have a dream that... 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 sisters and brothers.

　　　　 Let freedom ring from ....

　　　　 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 state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, 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!

　　　　今日再次重温，依然被其追求自由的精神所感动，依然能让人热血沸腾，我盼望有一天我（或别人）也能向所有中国人发表一次《我有一个梦想》的演讲。"Free at last! Free at last!Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

　　　　老视频（不太全，部分段落缺）

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　　　　演讲全文:（中文版随其后）

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　　　　 I Have A Dream

　　　　 Martin Luther King, Jr.

　　　　 28 August 1963,

　　　　 at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

　　　　 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 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 their captivity.

　　　　But 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 this shameful condition.

　　　　 In 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 justice.

　　　　 We 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 children.

　　　　 It 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 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 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 force.

　　　　 The 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 today,have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our dest

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