Mr. Chairman, fellow Democrats, fellow Americans: 主席先生，各位民主党同仁，各位美国同胞：
I realize that in speaking in behalf of the minority report on civil rights as presented by Congressman DeMiller of Wisconsin that I'm dealing with a charged issue -- with an issue which has been confused by emotionalism on all sides of the fence. I realize that there are here today friends and colleagues of mine, many of them, who feel just as deeply and keenly as I do about this issue and who are yet in complete disagreement with me. 我意识到，在为威斯康星州众议员德米勒提出的民权少数派报告辩护时，我正在处理一个敏感的问题——一个被各方情绪化所混淆的问题。我意识到，今天在场的有我的许多朋友和同事，其中许多人对这个问题和我一样感受深切，却完全不同意我的观点。
My respect and admiration for these men and their views was great when I came to this convention. It is now far greater because of the sincerity, the courtesy, and the forthrightness with which many of them have argued in our prolonged discussions in the platform committee. 我来参加这次大会时，对这些人士及其观点的尊敬和钦佩已经很深。如今这种敬意更加深厚，因为在纲领委员会漫长的讨论中，他们许多人以真诚、礼貌和坦率阐述了自己的立场。
Because of this very great respect -- and because of my profound belief that we have a challenging task to do here -- because good conscience, decent morality, demands it -- I feel I must rise at this time to support a report -- the minority report -- a report that spells out our democracy, a report that the people of this country can and will understand, and a report that they will enthusiastically acclaim on the great issue of civil rights. 正是出于这种极大的敬意——出于我深信我们在这里肩负着充满挑战的使命——出于良知和道德的要求——我感到此刻必须站出来支持一份报告——少数派报告——一份阐明我们民主理念的报告，一份我国人民能够并且将会理解的报告，一份他们会在民权这一重大问题上热烈赞许的报告。
Now let me say this at the outset that this proposal is made for no single region. Our proposal is made for no single class, for no single racial or religious group in mind. All of the regions of this country, all of the states have shared in our precious heritage of American freedom. All the states and all the regions have seen at least some of the infringements of that freedom -- all people -- get this -- all people, white and black, all groups, all racial groups have been the victims at time[s] in this nation of -- let me say -- vicious discrimination. 首先我要说明，这项提案并非为某一地区而设。我们的提案也不针对某一阶层、某一种族或宗教团体。我国所有地区、所有州都共享美国自由这一宝贵遗产。所有州和所有地区都至少见证过这种自由受到某种侵犯——所有人民——请注意——所有人，无论白人还是黑人，所有群体，所有种族群体，都曾在我国历史上成为——我要说——恶性歧视的受害者。
The masterly statement of our keynote speaker, the distinguished United States Senator from Kentucky, Alben Barkley, made that point with great force. Speaking of the founder of our Party, Thomas Jefferson, he said this, and I quote from Alben Barkley: 我们的主题演讲人、来自肯塔基州的杰出参议员阿尔本·巴克利以雄辩之辞强有力地阐述了这一点。在谈到本党创始人托马斯·杰斐逊时，他这样说，我引用巴克利参议员的话：
He did not proclaim that all the white, or the black, or the red, or the yellow men are equal; that all Christian or Jewish men are equal; that all Protestant and Catholic men are equal; that all rich and poor men are equal; that all good and bad men are equal. What he declared was that all men are equal; and the equality which he proclaimed was the equality in the right to enjoy the blessings of free government in which they may participate and to which they have given their support. 他并未宣称所有白人、黑人、红种人或黄种人是平等的；也未曾宣称所有基督徒或犹太人是平等的，所有新教徒或天主教徒是平等的，所有富人和穷人是平等的，所有好人和坏人是平等的。他所宣告的是所有人一律平等；他所宣扬的平等，是在享有自由政府福祉方面的平等，人民可以参与这一政府，并给予其支持。
Now these words of Senator Barkley's are appropriate to this convention -- appropriate to this convention of the oldest, the most truly progressive political party in America. From the time of Thomas Jefferson, the time when that immortal American doctrine of individual rights, under just and fairly administered laws, the Democratic Party has tried hard to secure expanding freedoms for all citizens. Oh, yes, I know, other political parties may have talked more about civil rights, but the Democratic party has surely done more about civil rights. 巴克利参议员的这番话适用于本次大会——适用于美国历史最悠久、最真正进步的政党的大会。从托马斯·杰斐逊时代起，从那项不朽的美国个人权利学说确立之时起，在公正公平的法律之下，民主党一直努力为所有公民争取日益扩大的自由。是的，我知道，其他政党可能在民权问题上说得更多，但民主党在民权问题上做得更多。
We have made progress -- we've made great progress in every part of this country. We've made great progress in the South; we've made it in the West, in the North, and in the East. But we must now focus the direction of that progress towards the -- towards the realization of a full program of civil rights to all. This convention must set out more specifically the direction in which our Party efforts are to go. 我们取得了进展——我们在我国每个地区都取得了巨大进展。我们在南方取得了巨大进展；在西部、北部和东部也都取得了进展。但我们现在必须把这种进展的方向聚焦于——聚焦于为所有人实现一项完整的民权方案。本次大会必须更具体地指明我们党努力的方向。
We can be proud that we can be guided by the courageous trail blazing of two great Democratic Presidents. We can be proud of the fact that our great and beloved immortal leader Franklin Roosevelt gave us guidance. And we be proud of the fact -- we can be proud of the fact that Harry Truman has had the courage to give to the people of America the new emancipation proclamation. 我们可以自豪地说，我们能够以两位伟大的民主党总统开辟的勇敢道路为指引。我们可以自豪的是，我们伟大而敬爱的不朽领袖富兰克林·罗斯福为我们指明了方向。我们也可以自豪地说——我们可以自豪的是，哈里·杜鲁门有勇气向美国人民颁布了新的解放宣言。
It seems to me -- It seems to me that the Democratic Party needs to make definite pledges of the kinds suggested in the minority report, to maintain the trust and the confidence placed in it by the people of all races and all sections of this country. Sure, we're here as Democrats. But my good friends, we're here as Americans; we're here as the believers in the principle and the ideology of democracy, and I firmly believe that as men concerned with our country's future, we must specify in our platform the guarantees which we have mentioned in the minority report. 在我看来——在我看来，民主党需要做出少数派报告中所建议的那种明确承诺，以维护我国所有种族和各地区人民寄托于本党的信任与信心。当然，我们以民主党人的身份来到这里。但我的好朋友们，我们以美国人的身份来到这里；我们以民主原则和民主理念信奉者的身份来到这里，我坚信，作为关心国家未来的人，我们必须在纲领中明确列出我们在少数派报告中提到的那些保障。
Yes, this is far more than a Party matter. Every citizen in this country has a stake in the emergence of the United States as a leader in the free world. That world is being challenged by the world of slavery. For us to play our part effectively, we must be in a morally sound position. 是的，这远非一党之事。美国作为自由世界领袖的崛起，关系到我国每一位公民的利益。那个自由世界正受到奴隶制世界的挑战。我们要想有效发挥作用，就必须占据道德上的制高点。
We can't use a double standard -- There's no room for double standards in American politics -- for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantee of those practices in our own country. 我们不能使用双重标准——美国政治中没有双重标准的余地——来衡量我们自己和他国的政策。我们对他国民主实践的呼吁，不会比我国国内对这些实践的保障更有力。
Friends, delegates, I do not believe that there can be any compromise on the guarantees of the civil rights which we have mentioned in the minority report. In spite of my desire for unanimous agreement on the entire platform, in spite of my desire to see everybody here in honest and unanimous agreement, there are some matters which I think must be stated clearly and without qualification. 朋友们，各位代表，我不认为我们在少数派报告中提到的民权保障问题上可以有任何妥协。尽管我渴望在整个纲领上达成一致，尽管我渴望看到在场的每个人都能真诚地达成一致，但仍有一些事情我认为必须清晰、毫无保留地阐明。
There can be no hedging -- the newspaper headlines are wrong. There will be no hedging, and there will be no watering down -- if you please -- of the instruments and the principles of the civil-rights program. 不容回避——报纸头条是错的。不会有回避，也不会有——请允许我这样说——民权方案的工具和原则被淡化。
My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states' rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights. 我的朋友们，对于那些说我们在民权问题上操之过急的人，我要对他们说，我们已经迟了172年。对于那些说这项民权方案侵犯各州权利的人，我要这样说：在美国，民主党走出各州权利阴影、昂首迈入人权灿烂阳光的时刻已经到来。
People -- human beings -- this is the issue of the 20th century. People of all kinds -- all sorts of people -- and these people are looking to America for leadership, and they're looking to America for precept and example. 人民——人类——这是20世纪的核心议题。各种各样的人民——形形色色的人——这些人正期待着美国的领导，期待着美国的训诫和榜样。
My good friends, my fellow Democrats, I ask you for a calm consideration of our historic opportunity. Let us do forget the evil passions and the blindness of the past. In these times of world economic, political, and spiritual -- above all spiritual crisis, we cannot and we must not turn from the path so plainly before us. That path has already lead us through many valleys of the shadow of death. And now is the time to recall those who were left on that path of American freedom. 我的好朋友们，各位民主党同仁，我请求你们冷静地思考我们这一历史性机遇。让我们忘却过去的邪念与盲目。在这个世界经济、政治和精神——尤其是精神危机的时代，我们不能、也绝不可背离眼前这条清晰的道路。这条路已经引领我们穿过许多死亡阴影的幽谷。如今是时候召回那些被遗留在美国自由之路上的人了。
For all of us here, for the millions who have sent us, for the whole two billion members of the human family, our land is now, more than ever before, the last best hope on earth. And I know that we can, and I know that we shall began [sic] here the fuller and richer realization of that hope, that promise of a land where all men are truly free and equal, and each man uses his freedom and equality wisely well. 为了我们所有在场的人，为了派遣我们前来的千百万民众，为了人类大家庭中整整二十亿成员，我们的国家如今比以往任何时候都更是地球上最后、最好的希望。我知道我们能够，也必将在此开启对那希望、对那承诺的更丰满、更丰富的实现——那是一个所有人都真正自由平等、每个人都明智地善用其自由与平等的国度。
My good friends, I ask my Party, I ask the Democratic Party, to march down the high road of progressive democracy. I ask this convention to say in unmistakable terms that we proudly hail, and we courageously support, our President and leader Harry Truman in his great fight for civil rights in America! 我的好朋友们，我请求我的党，我请求民主党，沿着进步民主的康庄大道前行。我请求本次大会以明确无误的语言宣示：我们自豪地拥护、勇敢地支持我们的总统和领袖哈里·杜鲁门在美国为民权而进行的伟大斗争！