An earthquake and a hurricane may have delayed this day, but this is a day that would not be denied. 地震和飓风也许推迟了这一天，但这一天不会被否定。
For this day, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s return to the National Mall. In this place, he will stand for all time, among monuments to those who fathered this nation and those who defended it; a black preacher with no official rank or title who somehow gave voice to our deepest dreams and our most lasting ideals, a man who stirred our conscience and thereby helped make our union more perfect. 今天，我们庆祝小马丁·路德·金博士重返国家广场。在这里，他将永远矗立，与那些缔造这个国家和捍卫这个国家的人们的纪念碑相伴。他是一位没有官衔和头衔的黑人牧师，却以某种方式为我们最深切的梦想和最持久的理想赋予了声音，他是一位唤醒了我们良知的人，从而帮助我们的联邦变得更加完美。
And Dr. King would be the first to remind us that this memorial is not for him alone. The movement of which he was a part depended on an entire generation of leaders. Many are here today, and for their service and their sacrifice, we owe them our everlasting gratitude. This is a monument to your collective achievement. 金博士会第一个提醒我们，这座纪念碑不仅仅属于他个人。他所参与的运动依赖整整一代人的领袖。许多人今天就在这里，因为他们的付出和牺牲，我们致以永恒的感激。这是你们集体成就的丰碑。
Some giants of the civil rights movement -- like Rosa Parks and Dorothy Height, Benjamin Hooks, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth -- they’ve been taken from us these past few years. This monument attests to their strength and their courage, and while we miss them dearly, we know they rest in a better place. 民权运动的一些巨人——如罗莎·帕克斯和多萝西·海特、本杰明·胡克斯、弗雷德·沙特尔斯沃斯牧师——在过去几年里相继离开了我们。这座纪念碑见证了他们的力量和勇气，虽然我们无比想念他们，但我们知道他们安息在更好的地方。
And finally, there are the multitudes of men and women whose names never appear in the history books -- those who marched and those who sang, those who sat in and those who stood firm, those who organized and those who mobilized -- all those men and women who through countless acts of quiet heroism helped bring about changes few thought were even possible. “By the thousands,” said Dr. 最后，还有无数男男女女，他们的名字从未出现在历史书上——那些游行的人和那些歌唱的人，那些静坐的人和那些坚守的人，那些组织的人和那些动员的人——所有那些通过无数默默无闻的英雄壮举帮助实现了少数人认为可能的变革的男男女女。"成千上万，"金博士说。
King, “faceless, anonymous, relentless young people, black and white…have taken our whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.” To those men and women, to those foot soldiers for justice, know that this monument is yours, as well. 金博士说："无数无名的、不屈不挠的年轻人，黑人和白人……将我们整个国家带回了那些伟大的民主之井，这些井深由开国元勋在制定宪法和《独立宣言》时所挖掘。"对这些男男女女，对这些正义的步兵们，请知道这座纪念碑也属于你们。
Nearly half a century has passed since that historic March on Washington, a day when thousands upon thousands gathered for jobs and for freedom. That is what our schoolchildren remember best when they think of Dr. King -- his booming voice across this Mall, calling on America to make freedom a reality for all of God’s children, [prophesying] of a day when the jangling discord of our nation would be transformed into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. 距离那次历史性的华盛顿游行已经过去了近半个世纪，那一天成千上万的人为就业和自由而聚集。这是我们的学童在想起金博士时记忆最深的一幕——他洪亮的声音回荡在国家广场上，呼唤美国让自由成为所有上帝子民的现实，预言有一天我们国家刺耳的不和谐音将转化为兄弟情谊的美妙交响。
It is right that we honor that march, that we lift up Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech -- for without that shining moment, without Dr. King’s glorious words, we might not have had the courage to come as far as we have. Because of that hopeful vision, because of Dr. King’s moral imagination, barricades began to fall and bigotry began to fade. New doors of opportunity swung open for an entire generation. Yes, laws changed, but hearts and minds changed, as well. 我们理应纪念那次游行，理应颂扬金博士的"我有一个梦想"演讲——因为如果没有那光辉的时刻，没有金博士那壮丽的言辞，我们也许不会有勇气走到今天。因为那充满希望的愿景，因为金博士的道德想象力，壁垒开始倒塌，偏见开始消退。一整代人面前打开了新的机遇之门。是的，法律改变了，但人心和思想也同样改变了。
Look at the faces here around you, and you see an America that is more fair and more free and more just than the one Dr. King addressed that day. We are right to savor that slow but certain progress -- progress that’s expressed itself in a million ways, large and small, across this nation every single day, as people of all colors and creeds live together, and work together, and fight alongside one another, and learn together, and build together, and love one another. 看看你们周围的面孔，你会看到一个比金博士那天所面对的美国更加公平、更加自由、更加公正的美国。我们理应为那缓慢但确实的进步感到欣慰——这进步以百万种方式，大大小小，每天在全国各地展现，各种肤色和信仰的人们一起生活、一起工作、并肩作战、一起学习、一起建设、彼此相爱。
So it is right for us to celebrate today Dr. King’s dream and his vision of unity. And yet it is also important on this day to remind ourselves that such progress did not come easily; that Dr. King’s faith was hard-won; that it sprung out of a harsh reality and some bitter disappointments. 因此，今天我们理应颂扬金博士的梦想和他团结的愿景。然而同样重要的是，在这一天我们要提醒自己，这样的进步来之不易；金博士的信仰来之不易；它萌芽于严酷的现实和苦涩的失望之中。
It is right for us to celebrate Dr. King’s marvelous oratory, but it is worth remembering that progress did not come from words alone. Progress was hard. Progress was purchased through enduring the smack of billy clubs and the blast of fire hoses. It was bought with days in jail cells and nights of bomb threats. For every victory during the height of the civil rights movement, there were setbacks and there were defeats. 我们理应颂扬金博士非凡的演说才华，但值得记住的是，进步不仅仅来自言辞。进步是艰难的。进步是通过忍受警棍的击打和消防水炮的冲击而换来的。它是用监狱中的日日夜夜和炸弹威胁换来的。在民权运动的高潮时期，每一次胜利都伴随着挫折和失败。
We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn’t always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn’t meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers. 我们如今已经忘记，但在他生前，金博士并不总被视为一个团结的人物。即使在他声名鹊起之后，即使在他获得诺贝尔和平奖之后，金博士仍被许多人诋毁，被斥为煽动者和搅局者、共产主义者和激进分子。他甚至遭到自己人的攻击——有人说他走得太快，有人说他走得太慢；有人说他不该干预越南战争或工会工人的权利等问题。
We know from his own testimony the doubts and the pain this caused him, and that the controversy that would swirl around his actions would last until the fateful day he died. 从他自己口中我们知道这给他带来的疑虑和痛苦，而围绕他行为的争议直到他去世的那一天都未曾停息。
I raise all this because nearly 50 years after the March on Washington, our work, Dr. King’s work, is not yet complete. We gather here at a moment of great challenge and great change. In the first decade of this new century, we have been tested by war and by tragedy; by an economic crisis and its aftermath that has left millions out of work, and poverty on the rise, and millions more just struggling to get by. Indeed, even before this crisis struck, we had endured a decade of rising inequality and stagnant wages. 我提起这一切，是因为在华盛顿游行将近五十年后，我们的工作、金博士的工作尚未完成。我们在此相聚，正值巨大的挑战和变革之际。在新世纪的头十年，我们经受了战争和悲剧的考验；经受了经济危机及其余波的冲击，数百万人失业，贫困加剧，数百万人勉强度日。事实上，即使在这场危机爆发之前，我们就已经历了不平等加剧和工资停滞的十年。
In too many troubled neighborhoods across the country, the conditions of our poorest citizens appear little changed from what existed 50 years ago -- neighborhoods with underfunded schools and broken-down slums, inadequate health care, constant violence, neighborhoods in which too many young people grow up with little hope and few prospects for the future. 在全国太多陷入困境的社区里，我们最贫困的公民的处境似乎与五十年前几乎没有什么变化——这些社区学校经费不足、贫民窟破败不堪、医疗保健不充分、暴力不断，太多年轻人成长过程中几乎看不到希望，对未来几乎没有前景。
Our work is not done. And so on this day, in which we celebrate a man and a movement that did so much for this country, let us draw strength from those earlier struggles. First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination. It took a full decade before the moral guidance of Brown v. Board of Education was translated into the enforcement measures of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, but those 10 long years did not lead Dr. King to give up. 我们的工作尚未完成。因此，在今天这个颂扬一个人和一场运动为国做出巨大贡献的日子里，让我们从早期的斗争中汲取力量。首先也是最重要的，让我们记住变革从来不是一蹴而就的。变革从来不简单，也不乏争议。变革依赖于坚持。变革需要决心。从布朗诉教育委员会案的道德指引转化为《民权法案》和《选举权法案》的执行措施花了整整十年，但那漫长的十年并没有让金博士放弃。
He kept on pushing, he kept on speaking, he kept on marching until change finally came. 他不断推动，他不断演说，他不断前行，直到变革终于到来。
And then when, even after the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act passed, African Americans still found themselves trapped in pockets of poverty across the country, Dr. King didn’t say those laws were a failure; he didn’t say this is too hard; he didn’t say, let’s settle for what we got and go home. Instead he said, let’s take those victories and broaden our mission to achieve not just civil and political equality but also economic justice; let’s fight for a living wage and better schools and jobs for all who are willing to work. 即便在《民权法案》和《选举权法案》通过之后，非裔美国人仍然发现自己被困在全国各地的贫困角落，金博士没有说那些法律是失败的；他没有说这太难了；他没有说，让我们满足于已有的成果然后回家。相反他说，让我们把这些胜利作为起点，扩大我们的使命，不仅要争取公民和政治平等，还要争取经济公正；让我们为生活工资、更好的学校和愿意工作的每个人争取就业机会而奋斗。
In other words, when met with hardship, when confronting disappointment, Dr. King refused to accept what he called the “isness” of today. He kept pushing towards the “oughtness” of tomorrow. 换言之，面对困难，面对失望，金博士拒绝接受他所称的"现实如此"。他不断朝着"应当如此"的明天推进。
And so, as we think about all the work that we must do -- rebuilding an economy that can compete on a global stage, and fixing our schools so that every child -- not just some, but every child -- gets a world-class education, and making sure that our health care system is affordable and accessible to all, and that our economic system is one in which everybody gets a fair shake and everybody does their fair share, let us not be trapped by what is. We can’t be discouraged by what is. 因此，当我们思考必须完成的所有工作——重建一个能在全球舞台上竞争的经济，修复我们的学校使每个孩子——不只是部分孩子，而是每个孩子——获得世界一流的教育，确保我们的医疗保健体系人人可及可负担，确保我们的经济体制中每个人得到公平的机会、尽到公平的份额——让我们不要被困在"现在如此"。我们不能因"现在如此"而气馁。
We’ve got to keep pushing for what ought to be, the America we ought to leave to our children, mindful that the hardships we face are nothing compared to those Dr. King and his fellow marchers faced 50 years ago, and that if we maintain our faith, in ourselves and in the possibilities of this nation, there is no challenge we cannot surmount. 我们必须继续推动"应当如此"，我们应当留给子女的那个美国，铭记我们所面对的困难与金博士和他的同行者五十年前面对的相比微不足道，只要我们保持信心——对自己的信心和对这个国家可能性的信心——就没有我们不能逾越的挑战。
And just as we draw strength from Dr. King’s struggles, so must we draw inspiration from his constant insistence on the oneness of man; the belief in his words that “we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” It was that insistence, rooted in his Christian faith, that led him to tell a group of angry young protesters, “I love you as I love my own children,” even as one threw a rock that glanced off his neck. 正如我们从金博士的斗争中汲取力量，我们也必须从他对人类一体性的不懈坚持中汲取灵感；他那"我们被束缚在一个不可避免的相互关联的网络中，被系在一件命运的衣裳中"的信念。正是这种根植于他基督教信仰的坚持，使他对一群愤怒的年轻抗议者说"我爱你们就像爱我的孩子们一样"，即使有人扔出的石头擦过了他的脖子。
It was that insistence, that belief that God resides in each of us, from the high to the low, in the oppressor and the oppressed, that convinced him that people and systems could change. It fortified his belief in non-violence. It permitted him to place his faith in a government that had fallen short of its ideals. It led him to see his charge not only as freeing black America from the shackles of discrimination, but also freeing many Americans from their own prejudices, and freeing Americans of every color from the depredations of poverty. 正是这种坚持，这种相信上帝存在于我们每个人心中——从高到低、在压迫者和被压迫者心中——的信念，使他相信人和制度都可以改变。它坚定了他对非暴力的信念。它使他能够将信心寄托于一个尚未达到其理想的政府。它使他看到自己的使命不仅是将黑人美国从歧视的枷锁中解放出来，也要将许多美国人从自身的偏见中解放出来，并将每一种肤色的美国人从贫困的掠夺中解放出来。
And so at this moment, when our politics appear so sharply polarized, and faith in our institutions so greatly diminished, we need more than ever to take heed of Dr. King’s teachings. He calls on us to stand in the other person’s shoes; to see through their eyes; to understand their pain. 因此，在这个我们的政治似乎如此尖锐对立、对我们制度的信心大打折扣的时刻，我们比以往任何时候都更需要汲取金博士的教导。他号召我们站在他人的立场上；通过他人的眼睛去看；理解他们的痛苦。
He tells us that we have a duty to fight against poverty, even if we are well off; to care about the child in the decrepit school even if our own children are doing fine; to show compassion toward the immigrant family, with the knowledge that most of us are only a few generations removed from similar hardships. 他告诉我们，即使我们生活优渥，也有责任与贫困作斗争；即使我们自己的孩子过得很好，也要关心那所破败学校里的孩子；对移民家庭展现同情，因为我们大多数人不过几代之前也曾经历过类似的艰辛。
To say that we are bound together as one people, and must constantly strive to see ourselves in one another, is not to argue for a false unity that papers over our differences and ratifies an unjust status quo. As was true 50 years ago, as has been true throughout human history, those with power and privilege will often decry any call for change as “divisive.” They’ll say any challenge to the existing arrangements are unwise and destabilizing. Dr. 说我们作为一个人民紧密相连，必须不断努力在彼此身上看到自己，并不是要为一种虚假的团结辩护——那种掩盖我们差异、认可不公正现状的团结。正如五十年前一样，正如整个人类历史一样，那些拥有权力和特权的人往往会把任何变革的呼声斥为"分裂性的"。他们会说任何对现有秩序的挑战都是不明智和破坏稳定的。金博士
King understood that peace without justice was no peace at all; that aligning our reality with our ideals often requires the speaking of uncomfortable truths and the creative tension of non-violent protest. 金博士深知，没有公正的和平根本不是和平；使我们的现实与理想对齐往往需要说出令人不快的真相，需要非暴力抗议的创造性张力。
But he also understood that to bring about true and lasting change, there must be the possibility of reconciliation; that any social movement has to channel this tension through the spirit of love and mutuality. 但他也明白，要带来真正持久的变革，就必须存在和解的可能；任何社会运动都必须通过爱与互惠的精神来化解这种张力。
If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there; that the businessman can enter tough negotiations with his company’s union without vilifying the right to collectively bargain. He would want us to know we can argue fiercely about the proper size and role of government without questioning each other’s love for this country -- with the knowledge that in this democracy, government is no distant object but is rather an expression of our common commitments to one another. 如果他今天还在世，我相信他会提醒我们，失业的工人可以正当地质疑华尔街的过度行为，而不必将那里的所有人都妖魔化；企业家可以与公司工会进行艰难的谈判，而不必诋毁集体谈判的权利。他会希望我们知道，我们可以激烈地争论政府的适当规模和角色，而不会质疑彼此对这个国家的热爱——因为我们知道，在民主体制下，政府不是遥远的东西，而是我们彼此间共同承诺的表达。
He would call on us to assume the best in each other rather than the worst, and challenge one another in ways that ultimately heal rather than wound. 他会号召我们以最好的善意而非最坏的恶意去揣度彼此，以一种最终治愈而非伤害的方式相互砥砺。
In the end, that’s what I hope my daughters take away from this monument. I want them to come away from here with a faith in what they can accomplish when they are determined and working for a righteous cause. I want them to come away from here with a faith in other people and a faith in a benevolent God. This sculpture, massive and iconic as it is, will remind them of Dr. King’s strength, but to see him only as larger than life would do a disservice to what he taught us about ourselves. He would want them to know that he had setbacks, because they will have setbacks. 归根结底，这就是我希望我的女儿们从这座纪念碑中汲取的东西。我希望她们带着一种信念离开这里：当她们意志坚定、为一个正义的事业而奋斗时，她们能够成就什么。我希望她们带着对他人和仁慈上帝的信念离开这里。这座雕塑，尽管如此宏伟和标志性，将提醒她们金博士的力量，但如果仅仅把他看作超越凡人的存在，就会有损他教给我们的关于自身的道理。他会希望她们知道他经历过挫折，因为她们也会经历挫折。
He would want them to know that he had doubts, because they will have doubts. He would want them to know that he was flawed, because all of us have flaws. 他会希望她们知道他有过疑虑，因为她们也会有疑虑。他会希望她们知道他也有缺陷，因为我们每个人都有缺陷。
It is precisely because Dr. King was a man of flesh and blood and not a figure of stone that he inspires us so. His life, his story, tells us that change can come if you don’t give up. 正是因为金博士是一个有血有肉的人，而非石头铸成的雕像，他才能如此激励我们。他的生命，他的故事告诉我们，只要不放弃，变革就会到来。
He would not give up, no matter how long it took, because in the smallest hamlets and the darkest slums, he had witnessed the highest reaches of the human spirit; because in those moments when the struggle seemed most hopeless, he had seen men and women and children conquer their fear; because he had seen hills and mountains made low and rough places made plain, and the crooked places made straight and God make a way out of no way. 他不会放弃，无论需要多长时间，因为在最小的村落和最黑暗的贫民窟里，他见证了人类精神的最高境界；因为在那些斗争看似最无望的时刻，他看到男男女女和孩子们战胜了恐惧；因为他看到了山丘和高山被削平，崎岖之处变为平原，弯曲之处被拉直，上帝在无路之处开辟了道路。
And that is why we honor this man -- because he had faith in us. And that is why he belongs on this Mall -- because he saw what we might become. That is why Dr. King was so quintessentially American -- because for all the hardships we’ve endured, for all our sometimes tragic history, ours is a story of optimism and achievement and constant striving that is unique upon this Earth. And that is why the rest of the world still looks to us to lead. 这就是我们纪念这个人的原因——因为他对我们怀有信心。这就是他属于这座广场的原因——因为他看到了我们可能成为的样子。这就是为什么金博士如此具有美国精神——因为我们所经历的一切艰辛，因为我们有时悲惨的历史，我们的故事是乐观和成就与不断奋斗的故事，这在世界上是独一无二的。这就是为什么世界其他国家仍然寄望于我们的引领。
This is a country where ordinary people find in their hearts the courage to do extraordinary things; the courage to stand up in the face of the fiercest resistance and despair and say this is wrong, and this is right; we will not settle for what the cynics tell us we have to accept and we will reach again and again, no matter the odds, for what we know is possible. 这是一个普通人从内心找到勇气去做非凡之事的国家；一个有勇气面对最激烈的反抗和绝望而站起来说这是错的、这是对的的国家；我们不会接受愤世嫉俗者告诉我们的我们必须接受的现实，我们将一次又一次地去争取，无论困难多大，去争取我们知道可能实现的目标。
That is the conviction we must carry now in our hearts. As tough as times may be, I know we will overcome. I know there are better days ahead. I know this because of the man towering over us. I know this because all he and his generation endured -- we are here today in a country that dedicated a monument to that legacy. 这就是我们现在必须怀揣在心的信念。无论时局多么艰难，我知道我们终将克服。我知道前方有更好的日子。我知道这一点，因为矗立在我们上方的这个人。我知道这一点，因为他和那一代人经受的一切——我们今天在这样一个国家，为那段遗产树立了纪念碑。
And so with our eyes on the horizon and our faith squarely placed in one another, let us keep striving; let us keep struggling; let us keep climbing toward that promised land of a nation and a world that is more fair, and more just, and more equal for every single child of God. 因此，让我们目光望向地平线，将信念坚定地放在彼此身上，让我们继续奋斗；让我们继续前行；让我们继续攀登，向那个应许之地迈进——一个对每一个上帝的孩子都更加公平、更加公正、更加平等的国家和世界。
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America. 谢谢，愿上帝保佑你们，愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。