To the King family, who have sacrificed and inspired so much; to President Clinton; President Carter; Vice President Biden and Jill; fellow Americans. 向作出巨大牺牲、带来深远鼓舞的金博士家人致意；向克林顿总统、卡特总统、拜登副总统和吉尔致意；向美国同胞们致意。
Five decades ago today, Americans came to this honored place to lay claim to a promise made at our founding: 五十年前的今天，美国人来到这片庄严的地方，要求兑现建国之初许下的承诺：
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. “我们认为以下真理不言而喻：人人生而平等，造物主赋予他们若干不可剥夺的权利，其中包括生命、自由和追求幸福的权利。”
In 1963, almost 200 years after those words were set to paper, a full century after a great war was fought and emancipation proclaimed, that promise -- those truths -- remained unmet. And so they came by the thousands from every corner of our country, men and women, young and old, blacks who longed for freedom and whites who could no longer accept freedom for themselves while witnessing the subjugation of others. 到了1963年，这些文字写下已近两百年，一场伟大的战争打过、解放宣言发表也已整整百年，那项承诺、那些真理仍未实现。于是，成千上万的人从全国各地赶来：男男女女、老老少少，渴望自由的黑人，以及眼看他人遭受压迫、再也无法心安理得独享自由的白人。
Across the land, congregations sent them off with food and with prayer. In the middle of the night, entire blocks of Harlem came out to wish them well. With the few dollars they scrimped from their labor, some bought tickets and boarded buses, even if they couldn’t always sit where they wanted to sit. Those with less money hitchhiked or walked. They were seamstresses and steelworkers, students and teachers, maids and Pullman porters. They shared simple meals and bunked together on floors. 全国各地的教会为他们准备食物，祈祷送行。午夜时分，哈莱姆街区的居民纷纷走出家门祝他们一路平安。有人省下辛勤劳动挣来的几块钱买车票、乘巴士，即使车上也未必能坐在想坐的位置。钱更少的人搭便车或徒步前来。他们是女裁缝、钢铁工人、学生、教师、女佣和卧铺列车服务员。他们一起吃简朴的饭菜，并排睡在地板上。
And then, on a hot summer day, they assembled here, in our nation’s capital, under the shadow of the Great Emancipator -- to offer testimony of injustice, to petition their government for redress, and to awaken America’s long-slumbering conscience. 然后，在一个炎热的夏日，他们来到这里，来到国家首都，在伟大的解放者林肯的身影下集会，见证不公，向政府请愿纠正，并唤醒美国沉睡已久的良知。
We rightly and best remember Dr. King’s soaring oratory that day, how he gave mighty voice to the quiet hopes of millions; how he offered a salvation path for oppressed and oppressors alike. His words belong to the ages, possessing a power and prophecy unmatched in our time. 我们最应铭记的，理所当然是金博士那天激昂的演说：他为数百万人的默默期望发出洪亮声音，也为受压迫者和压迫者指明获得救赎的道路。他的话语属于千秋万代，力量与预见在我们的时代无可匹敌。
But we would do well to recall that day itself also belonged to those ordinary people whose names never appeared in the history books, never got on TV. Many had gone to segregated schools and sat at segregated lunch counters. They lived in towns where they couldn’t vote and cities where their votes didn’t matter. They were couples in love who couldn’t marry, soldiers who fought for freedom abroad that they found denied to them at home. They had seen loved ones beaten, and children fire-hosed, and they had every reason to lash out in anger, or resign themselves to a bitter fate. 但我们也应记得，那一天属于那些名字从未写进历史书、从未登上电视的普通人。许多人上过种族隔离学校，坐过隔离的餐馆柜台；他们生活在不能投票的小镇，或选票不起作用的城市。他们是无法结婚的相爱伴侣，是在海外为自由而战、回国却被剥夺自由的军人。他们见过亲人遭殴打、孩子被高压水枪冲击，完全有理由愤怒反击，或向悲惨命运低头。
And yet they chose a different path. In the face of hatred, they prayed for their tormentors. In the face of violence, they stood up and sat in, with the moral force of nonviolence. Willingly, they went to jail to protest unjust laws, their cells swelling with the sound of freedom songs. A lifetime of indignities had taught them that no man can take away the dignity and grace that God grants us. They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith. 但他们选择了另一条路。面对仇恨，他们为折磨自己的人祈祷；面对暴力，他们以非暴力的道德力量挺身而出，静坐抗议。他们甘愿因反抗不公法律而入狱，让牢房回荡自由之歌。一生遭受的屈辱使他们明白，任何人都夺不走上帝赐予人的尊严与优雅。艰难的经历也让他们懂得弗雷德里克·道格拉斯曾说的道理：自由不是别人给予的，必须凭奋斗、自律、坚持和信念去争取。
That was the spirit they brought here that day. That was the spirit young people like John Lewis brought to that day. That was the spirit that they carried with them, like a torch, back to their cities and their neighborhoods. That steady flame of conscience and courage that would sustain them through the campaigns to come -- through boycotts and voter registration drives and smaller marches far from the spotlight; through the loss of four little girls in Birmingham, and the carnage of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and the agony of Dallas and California and Memphis. 那就是他们那天带来的精神，也是约翰·刘易斯等年轻人带来的精神。他们把它像火炬一样带回各自的城市和社区。那道良知与勇气的恒久火焰，支撑他们走过后来的运动：抵制、选民登记和远离聚光灯的小型游行；伯明翰四名小女孩遇害、埃德蒙·佩特斯桥上的血腥暴行，以及达拉斯、加利福尼亚和孟菲斯的悲痛时刻。
Through setbacks and heartbreaks and gnawing doubt, that flame of justice flickered; it never died. 经历挫折、心碎和难以摆脱的怀疑，正义之火虽然摇曳，却从未熄灭。
And because they kept marching, America changed. Because they marched, a Civil Rights law was passed. Because they marched, a Voting Rights law was signed. Because they marched, doors of opportunity and education swung open so their daughters and sons could finally imagine a life for themselves beyond washing somebody else’s laundry or shining somebody else’s shoes. Because they marched, city councils changed and state legislatures changed, and Congress changed, and, yes, eventually, the White House changed. 因为他们不断游行，美国发生了改变。因为他们游行，《民权法》得以通过；因为他们游行，《投票权法》得以签署；因为他们游行，教育与机会之门敞开，他们的儿女终于能想象一种不必只替别人洗衣擦鞋的生活。因为他们游行，市议会变了，州议会变了，国会变了，是的，最终白宫也变了。
Because they marched, America became more free and more fair -- not just for African Americans, but for women and Latinos, Asians and Native Americans; for Catholics, Jews, and Muslims; for gays, for Americans with a disability. America changed for you and for me. and the entire world drew strength from that example, whether the young people who watched from the other side of an Iron Curtain and would eventually tear down that wall, or the young people inside South Africa who would eventually end the scourge of apartheid. 因为他们游行，美国变得更加自由、公平，受益的不只是非洲裔，也包括妇女、拉丁裔、亚裔和美洲原住民，天主教徒、犹太教徒和穆斯林，同性恋者和残障美国人。美国为你我而改变，整个世界也从这一榜样汲取力量：铁幕另一边的年轻人后来推倒了那堵墙，南非的年轻人后来终结了种族隔离的祸害。
Those are the victories they won, with iron wills and hope in their hearts. That is the transformation that they wrought, with each step of their well-worn shoes. That’s the debt that I and millions of Americans owe those maids, those laborers, those porters, those secretaries; folks who could have run a company maybe if they had ever had a chance; those white students who put themselves in harm’s way, even though they didn't have; those Japanese Americans who recalled their own internment; those Jewish Americans who had survived the Holocaust; 这些胜利，是他们凭钢铁般的意志和心中的希望赢得的；这种转变，是他们穿着磨旧的鞋一步步实现的。我和数百万美国人都亏欠那些女佣、劳动者、列车服务员和秘书；其中有些人若曾有机会，也许本可经营企业。我们也亏欠那些冒险挺身而出的白人学生、铭记自己曾遭拘禁的日裔美国人，以及熬过大屠杀的犹太裔美国人；
people who could have given up and given in, but kept on keeping on, knowing that “weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” 他们本可以放弃或屈服，却依然坚持，因为他们知道：“一夜虽有哭泣，早晨便必欢呼。”
On the battlefield of justice, men and women without rank or wealth or title or fame would liberate us all in ways that our children now take for granted, as people of all colors and creeds live together and learn together and walk together, and fight alongside one another, and love one another, and judge one another by the content of our character in this greatest nation on Earth. 在争取正义的战场上，没有军衔、财富、头衔或名望的男女，为我们所有人赢得了孩子们如今视为寻常的自由：不同肤色、不同信仰的人，在这个伟大的国家共同生活、学习、行走、并肩战斗、彼此相爱，并以品格而非外表衡量彼此。
To dismiss the magnitude of this progress -- to suggest, as some sometimes do, that little has changed -- that dishonors the courage and the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years. Medgar Evers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Martin Luther King Jr. -- they did not die in vain. Their victory was great. 如果轻视这些进步的规模，像有些人那样说几乎什么都没改变，就是辜负那些当年为游行付出代价者的勇气与牺牲。梅德加·埃弗斯、詹姆斯·钱尼、安德鲁·古德曼、迈克尔·施韦纳、马丁·路德·金，他们没有白白牺牲。他们赢得了伟大的胜利。
But we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete. The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own. To secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency. Whether by challenging those who erect new barriers to the vote, or ensuring that the scales of justice work equally for all, and the criminal justice system is not simply a pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails, it requires vigilance. 但若说国家的工作已经完成，同样是对英雄们的不敬。道德宇宙的弧线也许倾向正义，却不会自行弯曲。要守护国家取得的成果，需要始终警醒，不能自满。无论是反对设置新的投票障碍的人，还是确保司法天平平等对待所有人，使刑事司法体系不沦为从经费不足的学校通往人满为患监狱的管道，都需要保持警醒。
And we'll suffer the occasional setback. But we will win these fights. This country has changed too much. People of goodwill, regardless of party, are too plentiful for those with ill will to change history’s currents. 我们偶尔会遭遇挫折，但终将赢得这些斗争。这个国家已发生太多变化，跨越党派的善良之人也足够多，心怀恶意者无法扭转历史潮流。
In some ways, though, the securing of civil rights, voting rights, the eradication of legalized discrimination -- the very significance of these victories may have obscured a second goal of the March. For the men and women who gathered 50 years ago were not there in search of some abstract ideal. They were there seeking jobs as well as justice -- not just the absence of oppression but the presence of economic opportunity. 不过，从某种意义上说，保障民权、投票权并消除法律认可的歧视，这些胜利意义如此重大，以致人们可能忽略了那场大游行的第二个目标。五十年前聚集于此的人们，追求的并非抽象理想；他们既要正义，也要工作；既要不再受压迫，也要拥有经济机会。
For what does it profit a man, Dr. King would ask, to sit at an integrated lunch counter if he can’t afford the meal? This idea -- that one’s liberty is linked to one’s livelihood; that the pursuit of happiness requires the dignity of work, the skills to find work, decent pay, some measure of material security -- this idea was not new. Lincoln himself understood the Declaration of Independence in such terms -- as a promise that in due time, “the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.” 正如金博士会问，一个人即使能坐在不再隔离的餐馆柜台前，却买不起饭，能得到什么好处？自由与生计相连，追求幸福需要有尊严的工作、求职技能、体面薪酬和一定物质保障，这种理念并不新鲜。林肯也如此理解《独立宣言》，认为它承诺终有一天“所有人肩上的重负都应卸下，所有人都应拥有平等机会”。
And Dr. King explained that the goals of African Americans were identical to working people of all races: “Decent wages, fair working conditions, livable housing, old-age security, health and welfare measures, conditions in which families can grow, have education for their children, and respect in the community.” 金博士解释，非洲裔追求的目标与所有族裔劳动者完全一致：“体面的工资、公平的工作条件、适宜居住的住房、老年保障、医疗与福利措施、使家庭能够成长的环境、子女的教育，以及社区的尊重。”
What King was describing has been the dream of every American. It's what's lured for centuries new arrivals to our shores. And it’s along this second dimension -- of economic opportunity, the chance through honest toil to advance one’s station in life -- where the goals of 50 years ago have fallen most short. 金博士描述的，是每个美国人的梦想。几个世纪以来，它吸引新来者来到我们的海岸。而在经济机会、靠诚实劳动改善生活这一层面，五十年前的目标实现得最不充分。
Yes, there have been examples of success within black America that would have been unimaginable a half century ago. But as has already been noted, black unemployment has remained almost twice as high as white unemployment, Latino unemployment close behind. The gap in wealth between races has not lessened, it's grown. And as President Clinton indicated, the position of all working Americans, regardless of color, has eroded, making the dream Dr. King described even more elusive. 的确，今天非洲裔美国人中有不少成功案例，半个世纪前难以想象。但正如刚才所提到的，黑人失业率仍接近白人的两倍，拉丁裔紧随其后。不同族裔间的财富差距没有缩小，反而扩大。正如克林顿总统指出的，不论肤色，所有劳动者的处境都已恶化，使金博士描述的梦想更加遥远。
For over a decade, working Americans of all races have seen their wages and incomes stagnate, even as corporate profits soar, even as the pay of a fortunate few explodes. Inequality has steadily risen over the decades. Upward mobility has become harder. In too many communities across this country, in cities and suburbs and rural hamlets, the shadow of poverty casts a pall over our youth, their lives a fortress of substandard schools and diminished prospects, inadequate health care and perennial violence. 十多年来，各族裔的劳动者眼看工资和收入停滞，企业利润却不断上升，少数幸运者的薪酬更是激增。几十年来，不平等持续加剧，向上流动越来越难。在全国太多社区，无论城市、郊区还是乡村小镇，贫困的阴影笼罩年轻人；低劣的学校、渺茫的前途、不足的医疗服务和长期不断的暴力，把他们困在其中。
And so as we mark this anniversary, we must remind ourselves that the measure of progress for those who marched 50 years ago was not merely how many blacks could join the ranks of millionaires. It was whether this country would admit all people who are willing to work hard regardless of race into the ranks of a middle-class life. 因此，纪念这一周年之际，我们必须提醒自己，五十年前游行者衡量进步的标准，不仅是有多少黑人能成为百万富翁，更是这个国家能否让所有愿意努力工作的人，不论种族，都有机会过上中产阶级的生活。
The test was not, and never has been, whether the doors of opportunity are cracked a bit wider for a few. It was whether our economic system provides a fair shot for the many -- for the black custodian and the white steelworker, the immigrant dishwasher and the Native American veteran. To win that battle, to answer that call -- this remains our great unfinished business. 检验的标准从来不是机会之门是否只为少数人开得更宽一点，而是经济体系是否给广大人民公平机会：黑人清洁工、白人钢铁工人、移民洗碗工和美洲原住民老兵。赢得这场斗争、回应这一呼唤，仍是我们尚未完成的伟大事业。
We shouldn’t fool ourselves. The task will not be easy. Since 1963, the economy has changed. The twin forces of technology and global competition have subtracted those jobs that once provided a foothold into the middle class -- reduced the bargaining power of American workers. And our politics has suffered. 我们不要自欺，这项任务并不容易。自1963年以来，经济发生变化。技术与全球竞争两股力量，使那些曾帮助人们迈入中产阶级的岗位消失，也削弱了美国劳动者的议价能力。我们的政治也受到损害。
Entrenched interests, those who benefit from an unjust status quo, resisted any government efforts to give working families a fair deal -- marshaling an army of lobbyists and opinion makers to argue that minimum wage increases or stronger labor laws or taxes on the wealthy who could afford it just to fund crumbling schools, that all these things violated sound economic principles. 既得利益者，也就是从不公现状中获益的人，抵制政府为工薪家庭争取公平待遇的努力。他们集结大批游说者和舆论人物，宣称提高最低工资、加强劳动法律，或让负担得起的富人多纳税以修复破败学校，都违背健全的经济原则。
We'd be told that growing inequality was a price for a growing economy, a measure of this free market; that greed was good and compassion ineffective, and those without jobs or health care had only themselves to blame. 他们告诉我们，不平等加剧是经济增长和自由市场必须付出的代价；贪婪有益，同情无用；没有工作或医保的人只能责怪自己。
And then, there were those elected officials who found it useful to practice the old politics of division, doing their best to convince middle-class Americans of a great untruth -- that government was somehow itself to blame for their growing economic insecurity; that distant bureaucrats were taking their hard-earned dollars to benefit the welfare cheat or the illegal immigrant. 还有些民选官员发现，沿用制造分裂的老政治很有用。他们尽力让中产阶级相信一件大谎言：经济安全感下降，竟是政府本身造成的；遥远的官僚拿走他们辛苦挣的钱，给骗取福利的人或非法移民。
And then, if we're honest with ourselves, we'll admit that during the course of 50 years, there were times when some of us claiming to push for change lost our way. The anguish of assassinations set off self-defeating riots. Legitimate grievances against police brutality tipped into excuse-making for criminal behavior. Racial politics could cut both ways, as the transformative message of unity and brotherhood was drowned out by the language of recrimination. 如果坦诚面对自己，我们也必须承认，过去五十年间，一些自称推动变革的人有时迷失了方向。暗杀事件带来的悲痛引发了损害自身事业的骚乱；对警察暴行的合理愤怒，有时变成替犯罪行为开脱；种族政治也可能伤害双方，让团结与手足情谊的变革讯息被相互责难淹没。
And what had once been a call for equality of opportunity, the chance for all Americans to work hard and get ahead was too often framed as a mere desire for government support -- as if we had no agency in our own liberation, as if poverty was an excuse for not raising your child, and the bigotry of others was reason to give up on yourself. 原本争取机会平等、让所有美国人靠努力取得进步的诉求，也太常被表述为仅仅要求政府援助，仿佛我们无力参与自身的解放，仿佛贫困可以成为不抚养孩子的借口，别人的偏见可以成为放弃自己的理由。
All of that history is how progress stalled. That's how hope was diverted. It's how our country remained divided. But the good news is, just as was true in 1963, we now have a choice. We can continue down our current path, in which the gears of this great democracy grind to a halt and our children accept a life of lower expectations; where politics is a zero-sum game where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie -- that’s one path. Or we can have the courage to change. 这段历史解释了进步为何停滞、希望为何偏离方向、国家为何继续分裂。但好消息是，和1963年一样，我们今天仍有选择。我们可以沿着现在的道路走下去，看着伟大民主制度的齿轮停转，让孩子接受更低的期待；让政治变成零和游戏，少数人飞黄腾达，各族裔苦苦支撑的家庭则争夺越来越小的经济蛋糕。这是一条路。或者，我们可以鼓起勇气改变。
The March on Washington teaches us that we are not trapped by the mistakes of history; that we are masters of our fate. But it also teaches us that the promise of this nation will only be kept when we work together. We’ll have to reignite the embers of empathy and fellow feeling, the coalition of conscience that found expression in this place 50 years ago. “向华盛顿进军”教会我们，历史错误不能困住我们，我们可以掌握自己的命运。但它也教会我们，只有携手努力，国家的承诺才能兑现。我们要重新点燃同情与互相关怀的余烬，重新凝聚五十年前在这里形成的良知联盟。
And I believe that spirit is there, that truth force inside each of us. I see it when a white mother recognizes her own daughter in the face of a poor black child. I see it when the black youth thinks of his own grandfather in the dignified steps of an elderly white man. It’s there when the native-born recognizing that striving spirit of the new immigrant; when the interracial couple connects the pain of a gay couple who are discriminated against and understands it as their own. 我相信那种精神仍在，它是真理在我们每个人心中的力量。当一位白人母亲在贫困黑人孩子的脸上看见自己女儿的影子，我看到了它；当一位黑人青年从一位白人老者端庄的步伐中想起自己的祖父，我看到了它。本土出生的人在新移民身上认出奋发的精神，跨种族伴侣理解遭受歧视的同性伴侣的痛苦并感同身受时，它也在那里。
That’s where courage comes from -- when we turn not from each other, or on each other, but towards one another, and we find that we do not walk alone. That’s where courage comes from. 勇气就从这里产生：我们不背离彼此，不互相攻击，而是走向彼此，发现自己并非独行。勇气就从这里产生。
And with that courage, we can stand together for good jobs and just wages. With that courage, we can stand together for the right to health care in the richest nation on Earth for every person. With that courage, we can stand together for the right of every child, from the corners of Anacostia to the hills of Appalachia, to get an education that stirs the mind and captures the spirit, and prepares them for the world that awaits them. 有了这种勇气，我们可以共同争取好工作与公平工资；在世界最富有的国家，为每个人争取医疗保障的权利；让每个孩子，从阿纳科斯蒂亚的街角到阿巴拉契亚的山丘，都有权接受启发心智、激励精神、为未来世界做好准备的教育。
With that courage, we can feed the hungry, and house the homeless, and transform bleak wastelands of poverty into fields of commerce and promise. 有了这种勇气，我们可以让饥饿者吃饱、无家可归者有房住，把贫困荒芜的土地变成充满商业活力与希望的地方。
America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching. 美国的朋友们，我知道路还很长，但我知道我们能走到终点。是的，我们会跌倒，但会重新站起来。运动就是这样发展，历史就是这样转向；当有人灰心时，另一个人就拉着他前进，说：“来吧，我们继续走。”
There’s a reason why so many who marched that day, and in the days to come, were young -- for the young are unconstrained by habits of fear, unconstrained by the conventions of what is. They dared to dream differently, to imagine something better. And I am convinced that same imagination, the same hunger of purpose stirs in this generation. 那一天以及之后参加游行的人，许多都是年轻人，这是有原因的。年轻人不受恐惧的习惯所束缚，也不受现状惯例所局限。他们敢于梦想不同的未来，想象更美好的可能。我深信，同样的想象力和对使命的渴望，也在这一代人心中涌动。
We might not face the same dangers of 1963, but the fierce urgency of now remains. We may never duplicate the swelling crowds and dazzling procession of that day so long ago -- no one can match King’s brilliance -- but the same flame that lit the heart of all who are willing to take a first step for justice, I know that flame remains. 我们今天也许不面临1963年同样的危险，但当下仍有迫切的要求。我们也许永远无法重现当年壮阔的人群与耀眼的队伍，无人能企及金博士的才华；但那点燃每个愿意为正义迈出第一步者心灵的火焰，我知道仍未熄灭。
That tireless teacher who gets to class early and stays late and dips into her own pocket to buy supplies because she believes that every child is her charge -- she’s marching. 那位不知疲倦的老师，早早进教室，放学后还留在那里，自掏腰包购买教学用品，因为她相信每个孩子都是自己的责任——她正在前进。
That successful businessman who doesn't have to but pays his workers a fair wage and then offers a shot to a man, maybe an ex-con who is down on his luck -- he’s marching. 那位事业成功的企业家，即使没有人逼迫，仍给员工公平工资，并愿意给一个走投无路、也许曾经入狱的人机会——他正在前进。
The mother who pours her love into her daughter so that she grows up with the confidence to walk through the same door as anybody’s son -- she’s marching. 那位把爱倾注给女儿的母亲，让她长大后有自信与任何人的儿子走进同一扇门——她正在前进。
The father who realizes the most important job he’ll ever have is raising his boy right, even if he didn't have a father -- especially if he didn't have a father at home -- he’s marching. 那位父亲明白，自己一生最重要的工作是把儿子抚养好，即使他自己没有父亲，尤其是没有父亲在家陪伴——他正在前进。
The battle-scarred veterans who devote themselves not only to helping their fellow warriors stand again, and walk again, and run again, but to keep serving their country when they come home -- they are marching. 那些满身战伤的老兵，不仅帮助战友重新站立、行走和奔跑，回家后也继续为国服务——他们正在前进。
Everyone who realizes what those glorious patriots knew on that day -- that change does not come from Washington, but to Washington; that change has always been built on our willingness, We The People, to take on the mantle of citizenship -- you are marching. 每个明白当年那些光荣的爱国者所懂道理的人——改变不是来自华盛顿，而是由人民带到华盛顿；它始终有赖于“我们人民”愿意承担公民责任——你们正在前进。
And that’s the lesson of our past. That's the promise of tomorrow -- that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. That when millions of Americans of every race and every region, every faith and every station, can join together in a spirit of brotherhood, then those mountains will be made low, and those rough places will be made plain, and those crooked places, they straighten out towards grace, and we will vindicate the faith of those who sacrificed so much and live up to the true meaning of our creed, as one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty 这是历史的教训，也是明天的承诺：即使面对看似不可能的困难，热爱国家的人仍能改变它。数百万来自各族裔、各地区、各信仰、各阶层的美国人，只要本着手足之情团结起来，高山就会削平，崎岖之路会变得平坦，弯曲之处也会通向恩典。那时，我们将不负作出巨大牺牲者的信念，真正践行我们的信条：在上帝庇佑下，成为一个不可分割、人人享有自由……
and justice for all. ……与正义的国家。