Thank you so much for those kind words of introduction. I must tell you that I'm delighted, very pleased, and really happy to be here. You look good! The weather is good, the rain stayed away. I'm happy. It's good to see each and every one of you. 感谢你那番亲切的介绍词。我必须告诉你们，我非常高兴、非常欣慰，也真的非常开心能来到这里。你们看起来真精神！天气很好，雨一直没有下。我很开心。很高兴见到你们每一个人。
Fellows of Harvard University, members of the Board of Overseers, members of the Alumni Board, distinguished deans, guests, faculty, and all of the students, all of the wonderful graduates — and Madam President, thank you. Thank you for your leadership. Thank you for getting in good trouble — necessary trouble — to lead this great university. 哈佛大学校务委员会成员、监事会成员、校友会董事会成员、各位尊敬的院长、来宾、全体教职员工、全体学生、所有出色的毕业生们——还有校长女士，谢谢您。感谢您的领导。感谢您为了领导这所伟大的大学而惹上“好的麻烦”——必要的麻烦。
I want to take just a moment to honor the tenure of a great leader who, through her courage and vision, worked to lead this historic university to even higher heights. Madam President, thank you for being a friend, but more importantly, thank you for using your office to move Harvard toward a more all-inclusive institution. 我想花一点时间，向一位伟大的领导者致敬。她以勇气和远见，带领这所历史悠久的大学迈向更高的高度。校长女士，感谢您成为朋友，但更重要的是，感谢您运用您的职权，推动哈佛成为一个更加包容的机构。
Somewhere along the way, you realized that the brilliant mind is not confined to one discipline or one way of thinking. In fact, true genius sees connections and relationships across barriers, to build a new understanding of the world around us. 在这一路的探索中，您认识到，卓越的头脑并不局限于某一门学科或某一种思维方式。事实上，真正的天才能够跨越壁垒看到联系与关系，从而构建起对周围世界的全新理解。
Creating One Harvard is much like the work I dedicated my life to. Ever since, as a young girl, you wrote a letter to President Eisenhower, you have been responding to the cry for human dignity that rings out in our world. You used your vision and your talent. You used the great resources of this university to respond to that call, and I thank you. Thank you for your contribution to human unity in our world today. 打造"同一个哈佛"，与我要毕生投入的事业十分相似。自从您少女时代给艾森豪威尔总统写信以来，您一直在回应我们这个世界呼唤人类尊严的呐喊。您运用您的远见和才华，运用这所大学的伟大资源来回应那一召唤，我感谢您。感谢您为当今世界的人类团结所作的贡献。
I say to each and every one of you who graduated from this university: You must lead. You're never too young to lead. You're never too old to lead. We need your leadership now more than ever before. We need it! We must save our country. We must save it. We must save our democracy. There are forces in America today and around the world trying to take us to some other place. 我要对从这所大学毕业的你们每一个人说：你们必须挺身领导。你们永远不会年轻得无法领导，也永远不会年长得无法领导。我们比以往任何时候都更需要你们的领导。我们需要！我们必须拯救我们的国家。我们必须拯救它。我们必须拯救我们的民主。今天，在美国和世界各地，都有一些势力企图把我们带向另一个方向。
Our foremothers and forefathers brought us to this place. Maybe our foremothers and our forefathers all came to this great country in different ships, but as the late, great A. Philip Randolph said, "We are all in the same boat now." And we must look out for each other and care for each other. 我们的先辈把我们带到了今天。也许他们乘坐不同的船只来到这个伟大的国家，但正如已故的伟大领袖A.·菲利普·伦道夫所说：“如今我们都在同一条船上。”我们必须彼此照应、彼此关怀。
You're never too young or too old to lead — to speak up, speak out, and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. You cannot afford to stand on the sidelines. Another generation of young people, and people not so young, are inspired to get in the way. Students from Harvard and Dr. Cole, whom I have known for many years, came to Mississippi, came to the South, and gave everything they had. 无论年轻还是年长，你们都可以挺身领导——勇敢发声、大声疾呼，去惹“好的麻烦”、必要的麻烦。你们不能袖手旁观。又一代年轻人和不再年轻的人，受到鼓舞，挺身阻挡不义。哈佛的学生们以及我认识多年的科尔博士来到密西西比，来到南方，付出了他们的一切。
During the Sixties, young men that I knew — Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney — gave their lives while they were helping people to register to vote. 六十年代，我所认识的年轻人——安德鲁·古德曼、迈克尔·施韦纳和詹姆斯·钱尼——在帮助人们登记投票时献出了生命。
The vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent instrument or tool we have in a democratic society, and we must use it. If we fail to use it, we will lose it. 选票是珍贵的，它几乎神圣。它是民主社会里我们手中最有力的非暴力工具或武器，我们必须使用它。如果我们不使用它，我们就会失去它。
So during this election year, I urge you, I plead with you, to do what you can to save and rescue America — to do what you can to save the planet, save this spaceship we call Earth, and leave it a little cleaner, a little greener, and a little more peaceful for generations yet unborn. 所以在这个选举之年，我恳请你们，我拜托你们，尽你们所能去拯救和挽救美国——尽你们所能去拯救这个星球，拯救这艘我们称之为地球的太空船，让它更干净一点、更绿色一点、更和平一点，留给尚未出生的世世代代。
We have a mission and a mandate to go out there and play a role, and play it so well — as Dr. King would say — that no one else can play it any better. 我们肩负使命与责任，要走到世界舞台上扮演好自己的角色，而且要演得足够好——正如马丁·路德·金博士所说——好到没有任何人能演得更好。
You have heard me say from time to time that I grew up in rural Alabama on a farm, picking cotton, gathering peanuts, gathering corn. Sometimes I would be out there working and my mother would say, "Boy, you're falling behind! You need to catch up." And I would say, "This is hard work." And she said, "Hard work never killed anybody." And I said, "It's about to kill me!" 你们常听我说，我在阿拉巴马乡下的一个农场长大，摘棉花、收花生、掰玉米。有时我正在地里干活，母亲会说："孩子，你落后了！你得赶上来。"我会说："这活儿太辛苦了。"她会说："辛苦的活儿从来累不死人。"我说："它快要把我累死了！"
We need to work hard. There is work to be done. These smart graduates will lead us. High school students will lead us. And guys, I say to you, if you're not mindful, the women are going to lead us! It is my belief, it is my feeling, as a traveler of America, that the women and young people — high school students, elementary school students, and college students — will lead us as part of a nonviolent revolution. We will create an America that is better, a little more humane, and no one, but no one, can deny us of that. 我们需要努力工作。还有工作等着去做。这些聪明的毕业生会领导我们。高中生会领导我们。男士们，我告诉你们，如果你们不留神，女性就要走在我们前面了！作为一个走遍美国的人，我坚信，我深切地感到，女性和年轻人——高中生、小学生和大学生——将投身一场非暴力革命，引领我们前行。我们将创造一个更美好、更有人情味的美国，没有人，绝对没有人，能阻止我们做到这一点。
I just want to say one or two words to the graduates. Take a deep breath and take it all in. But tomorrow, I hope you roll up your sleeves, because the world is waiting for talented men and women to lead it to a better place. During the Sixties, people literally put their bodies on the line. Many came from this university, came from Cambridge, from Boston, throughout the state, and throughout America. 我只想对毕业生们再说一两句话。深吸一口气，把这一切都装进心里。但明天，我希望你们挽起袖子，因为这个世界正等待着有才干的男男女女来把它带向更美好的地方。六十年代，人们真真切切地把自己的身体押上了前线。许多人来自这所大学，来自剑桥，来自波士顿，来自全州各地，来自全美各地。
Just think: a few short years ago, black people and white people couldn't be seated together on a Greyhound bus or Trailways bus leaving Washington, D.C., to travel through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi. We were on our way to New Orleans to test a decision of the United States Supreme Court. We were beaten, arrested, and more than 400 of us were jailed. My seatmate was a young white gentleman from Connecticut. We arrived in a small town in South Carolina. We were beaten, left bloody. This was May 1961, the same year that Barack Obama was born. 想一想吧：就在不久以前，黑人和白人还不能同坐在一辆从华盛顿特区出发、途经弗吉尼亚、北卡罗来纳、南卡罗来纳、佐治亚、阿拉巴马和密西西比的灰狗巴士或Trailways客运巴士上。我们当时正前往新奥尔良，检验美国最高法院的一项裁决是否得到执行。我们遭到殴打和逮捕，四百多人被关进监狱。我的邻座是一位来自康涅狄格州的年轻白人。我们抵达南卡罗来纳州的一个小镇后，被打得头破血流。那是1961年5月，与贝拉克·奥巴马出生同一年。
But many years later, one of the guys that beat us came to my office in Washington. He got information from a local reporter. He was in his seventies; his son came with him, in his forties. He said, "Mr. Lewis, I'm one of the people that beat you, beat your seatmate. I've been a member of the Klan. Will you forgive me? I want to apologize. Will you accept my apology? Will you forgive me?" His son started crying. He started crying. And I said, "I forgive you. I accept your apology." They hugged me, I hugged them back, and I cried with them. 但许多年后，当年殴打我们的人中的一个，来到我在华盛顿的办公室。他从当地一名记者那里得到了消息。他已年过七旬，他的儿子陪他一起来，四十来岁。他说："刘易斯先生，我是当年打你的人之一，打了你的邻座。我曾是三K党成员。你愿意原谅我吗？我想道歉。你愿意接受我的道歉吗？你愿意原谅我吗？"他的儿子哭了起来，他也哭了起来。我说："我原谅你。我接受你的道歉。"他们拥抱了我，我回抱了他们，我和他们一同流泪。
It is the power of the way of peace, the power of love. It is the power of the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence. We need to create a society where we can be reconciled and lay down the burden of hate, for hate is too heavy a burden to bear. 这就是和平之路的力量、爱的力量。它是非暴力哲学与纪律的力量。我们需要创造一个能够彼此和解的社会，卸下仇恨的负担，因为仇恨太沉重，难以承受。
Fifty years ago, the man that I admired, the man that was like a brother — Martin Luther King, Jr. — was taken from us. When we heard that Dr. King had been assassinated, I was in Indianapolis, Indiana, campaigning with Bobby Kennedy. I cried. I stopped crying and I said to myself, "We still have Bobby." Two months later, Bobby Kennedy was gone, and I cried some more. 五十年前，我所敬仰的那个人、那个如同兄弟一般的人——小马丁·路德·金——被从我们身边夺走了。当我们得知金博士遇刺身亡时，我正在印第安纳州的印第安纳波利斯，与博比·肯尼迪一起竞选。我哭了。止住眼泪之后，我对自己说："我们还有博比。"两个月后，博比·肯尼迪也走了，我又哭了一场。
Today, we've got to get rid of our tears and not be down and not get lost in the sea of despair. We've got to be hopeful, keep the faith, and turn the ship around. We can do it, and we must do it! 今天，我们必须擦干眼泪，不消沉，不迷失在绝望的汪洋之中。我们必须怀抱希望，坚守信念，把这艘船调转航向。我们能做到，我们也必须做到！
Here at Harvard, you've been well trained. You must lead. You must get out there and, as Dr. King would say, be a headlight, not a taillight. It's your time. It's your calling. During the Sixties, I got arrested a few times — 40 times. And since I've been in Congress, another five times. And I'm probably going to get arrested again. My philosophy is very simple: When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, stand up, say something, speak up and speak out. 在哈佛，你们已受过良好的训练。你们必须挺身领导。你们必须走出去，用金博士的话说，做照亮前路的车灯，不做被动跟随的尾灯。这是你们的时代，这是你们的使命。六十年代，我被捕过几次——四十次！进入国会之后，又被捕了五次！我大概还会再被捕。我的哲学非常简单：当你看到不对的事、不公平的事、不正义的事，站出来！说点什么！大声疾呼！
When I was growing up as a young boy in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, I had an aunt by the name of Seneva, and my aunt lived in a shotgun house. Here at Harvard, you've never seen a shotgun house. You don't even know what I'm talking about. One way in, one way out. What is a shotgun house? An old house, dirt yard. Sometimes my Aunt Seneva would go out on the weekend, Friday or Saturday, and take a brush broom made from dogwood branches and sweep the yard very clean. 我小时候在阿拉巴马乡下长大，离蒙哥马利五十英里，我有一位姑妈，名叫塞妮瓦，她住在一座"猎枪房"里。在哈佛，你们从没见过猎枪房，你们甚至不知道我在说什么。一个门进，一个门出。什么是猎枪房？一座老屋，一片泥地。有时候，塞妮瓦姑妈会在周末——周五或周六——拿一把山茱萸枝扎成的硬毛扫帚，把院子扫得干干净净。
One Saturday afternoon, a few of my brothers and sisters, cousins — about 15 of us, young children — were playing in her dirt yard, and an unbelievable storm came up. The wind started blowing, the thunder started rolling, and the lightning started flashing, and she told us to come in. We went in. The wind continued to blow, the thunder continued to roll, the lightning continued to flash, and the rain continued to beat on this old tin roof of the shotgun house. And we cried and cried. 一个周六的下午，我的几个兄弟姐妹、表亲——大约十五个孩子——正在她的泥院子里玩耍，一场不可思议的风暴骤然而至。风刮起来了，雷滚动起来，闪电划过天空，她叫我们进屋。我们进去了。风继续刮，雷继续滚，闪电继续闪，雨水继续敲打着猎枪房那老旧的铁皮屋顶。我们哭啊哭。
And when one corner of the old house appeared to be lifting up, my aunt walked over to that side to hold the house down with her body. When the other corner appeared to be lifting, she had us walk to that corner. We were children walking with the wind, but we never, ever left the house. 当老屋的一个屋角仿佛要被掀起时，姑妈走到那一侧，用自己的身体压住房子。当另一个屋角仿佛要被掀起时，她又让我们走到那个屋角。我们是与风同行的孩子，但我们从来没有，从来没有离开过这座房子。
I say to each of you, each and every one of us: The wind may blow, the thunder may roll, the lightning may flash, and the rain may beat down on an old house — call it the house of Harvard, call it the house of Cambridge, call it the house of Gloucester, call it the house of Washington, or Alabama, or Georgia — we all live in the same house. We all must hold our little house down. 我要对你们每一个人，对我们每一个人说：风也许会刮，雷也许会滚，闪电也许会闪，雨水也许会敲打一座老屋——称它为哈佛之家也好，剑桥之家也好，格洛斯特之家也好，华盛顿之家，或者阿拉巴马、佐治亚也好——我们都住在同一座房子里。我们都必须用自己压住我们这座小小的房子。
So I say to you: Walk with the wind. Let the spirit of history be your guide. Thank you very much. 所以我对你们说：与风同行。让历史精神为你们指路。非常感谢大家。