Mr. Speaker, Leader Reid, Leader McConnell, Leader Pelosi, Assistant Leader Clyburn; to the friends and family of Rosa Parks; to the distinguished guests who are gathered here today. 议长先生，里德领袖、麦康奈尔领袖、佩洛西领袖、克莱伯恩助理领袖；罗莎·帕克斯的亲友们；以及今天在场的各位贵宾。
This morning, we celebrate a seamstress, slight in stature but mighty in courage. She defied the odds, and she defied injustice. She lived a life of activism, but also a life of dignity and grace. And in a single moment, with the simplest of gestures, she helped change America -- and change the world. 今天上午，我们庆祝一位身材娇小却勇气非凡的女裁缝。她不向艰难屈服，也不向不公屈服。她的一生投身行动，同时也保持着尊严与优雅。在一个瞬间，以最简单的举动，她帮助改变了美国——也改变了世界。
Rosa Parks held no elected office. She possessed no fortune; lived her life far from the formal seats of power. And yet today, she takes her rightful place among those who've shaped this nation's course. I thank all those persons, in particular the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, both past and present, for making this moment possible. 罗莎·帕克斯没有担任过民选公职。她没有财富，一生远离正式的权力中心。然而今天，她理所当然地跻身于那些塑造了这个国家历程的人物之列。我感谢促成这一时刻的所有人，尤其感谢历届和现任国会黑人核心小组的成员。
A childhood friend once said about Mrs. Parks, "Nobody ever bossed Rosa around and got away with it." That's what an Alabama driver learned on December 1, 1955. Twelve years earlier, he had kicked Mrs. Parks off his bus simply because she entered through the front door when the back door was too crowded. He grabbed her sleeve and he pushed her off the bus. It made her mad enough, she would recall, that she avoided riding his bus for a while. 帕克斯夫人的一位儿时朋友曾说：“从来没有人能对罗莎发号施令而不付出代价。”一位阿拉巴马州的司机在1955年12月1日学到了这一点。十二年前，仅仅因为后门太拥挤、她从前门上车，他就把帕克斯夫人赶下了车。他抓住她的衣袖，把她推下公交车。她后来回忆，这件事让她气愤到有一段时间都避开乘坐他的车。
And when they met again that winter evening in 1955, Rosa Parks would not be pushed. When the driver got up from his seat to insist that she give up hers, she would not be pushed. When he threatened to have her arrested, she simply replied, "You may do that." And he did. 1955年冬天的那个傍晚，当他们再次相遇时，罗莎·帕克斯不会再被推搡。当司机从座位上站起来，坚持要她让出座位时，她不会被推搡。当他威胁要逮捕她时，她只是回答：“你可以这么做。”而他真的这么做了。
A few days later, Rosa Parks challenged her arrest. A little-known pastor, new to town and only 26 years old, stood with her -- a man named Martin Luther King, Jr. So did thousands of Montgomery, Alabama commuters. 几天后，罗莎·帕克斯对自己的被捕提出了挑战。一位刚到镇上、年仅26岁、当时还不太知名的牧师站在她身旁——他叫马丁·路德·金。阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利的数千名通勤者也与她站在一起。
They began a boycott -- teachers and laborers, clergy and domestics, through rain and cold and sweltering heat, day after day, week after week, month after month, walking miles if they had to, arranging carpools where they could, not thinking about the blisters on their feet, the weariness after a full day of work -- walking for respect, walking for freedom, driven by a solemn determination to affirm their God-given dignity. 他们发动了抵制行动——教师和劳工、神职人员和家政工人，穿过雨天、严寒和酷暑，日复一日、周复一周、月复一月；必要时步行数英里，能够合乘车时便安排合乘；不去想脚上的水泡，也不去想一天工作后的疲惫——他们为尊重而行走，为自由而行走，由一种庄严的决心驱动，要确认上帝赋予他们的尊严。
Three hundred and eighty-five days after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, the boycott ended. Black men and women and children re-boarded the buses of Montgomery, newly desegregated, and sat in whatever seat happened to be open. And with that victory, the entire edifice of segregation, like the ancient walls of Jericho, began to slowly come tumbling down. 罗莎·帕克斯拒绝让座385天后，抵制结束了。新近解除隔离的蒙哥马利公交车上，黑人男性、女性和儿童重新上车，坐在任何空着的座位上。随着这场胜利，整个种族隔离的建筑，如同古代耶利哥城墙，开始缓缓坍塌。
It's been often remarked that Rosa Parks' activism didn't begin on that bus. Long before she made headlines, she had stood up for freedom, stood up for equality -- fighting for voting rights, rallying against discrimination in the criminal justice system, serving in the local chapter of the NAACP. Her quiet leadership would continue long after she became an icon of the civil rights movement, working with Congressman Conyers to find homes for the homeless, preparing disadvantaged youth for a path to success, striving each day to right some wrong somewhere in this world. 人们常说，罗莎·帕克斯的行动主义并非始于那辆公交车。早在登上新闻头条之前，她就已为自由而站起、为平等而站起——为投票权奋斗，反对刑事司法系统中的歧视，并在全国有色人种协进会地方分会服务。她安静的领导力在成为民权运动象征之后仍在延续：她与康耶斯众议员一起为无家可归者寻找住房，为处境不利的青年铺就成功之路，日复一日努力纠正这个世界某处的某个错误。
And yet our minds fasten on that single moment on the bus -- Ms. Parks alone in that seat, clutching her purse, staring out a window, waiting to be arrested. That moment tells us something about how change happens, or doesn't happen; the choices we make, or don't make. "For now we see through a glass, darkly," Scripture says, and it's true. Whether out of inertia or selfishness, whether out of fear or a simple lack of moral imagination, we so often spend our lives as if in a fog, accepting injustice, rationalizing inequity, tolerating the intolerable. 然而，我们的思绪仍会停驻在公交车上的那一瞬间——帕克斯女士独自坐在座位上，紧握手提包，望向窗外，等待被捕。那一刻告诉我们改变如何发生，或如何不发生；告诉我们所作或未作的选择。正如《圣经》所说：“我们如今仿佛对着镜子观看，模糊不清。”这是真的。无论出于惰性或自私，出于恐惧或只是缺乏道德想象力，我们常常像活在迷雾中一样度日：接受不公，为不平等辩解，容忍不可容忍之事。
Like the bus driver, but also like the passengers on the bus, we see the way things are -- children hungry in a land of plenty, entire neighborhoods ravaged by violence, families hobbled by job loss or illness -- and we make excuses for inaction, and we say to ourselves, that's not my responsibility, there's nothing I can do. 像那位公交车司机，也像车上的乘客一样，我们看见现实的样子——富足土地上的儿童在挨饿，整个社区被暴力摧残，家庭因失业或疾病而步履维艰——却为不作为寻找借口，对自己说：那不是我的责任，我无能为力。
Rosa Parks tells us there's always something we can do. She tells us that we all have responsibilities, to ourselves and to one another. She reminds us that this is how change happens -- not mainly through the exploits of the famous and the powerful, but through the countless acts of often anonymous courage and kindness and fellow feeling and responsibility that continually, stubbornly, expand our conception of justice -- our conception of what is possible. 罗莎·帕克斯告诉我们：我们总能做些什么。她告诉我们，我们对自己、也对彼此负有责任。她提醒我们，改变正是这样发生的——并不主要来自名人和强者的壮举，而是来自无数往往不为人知的勇气、善意、同胞情谊和责任之举；这些举动持续而执着地拓展我们对正义的理解——拓展我们对何为可能的理解。
Rosa Parks's singular act of disobedience launched a movement. The tired feet of those who walked the dusty roads of Montgomery helped a nation see that to which it had once been blind. It is because of these men and women that I stand here today. It is because of them that our children grow up in a land more free and more fair; a land truer to its founding creed. 罗莎·帕克斯这一次非凡的不服从行动，发起了一场运动。那些走过蒙哥马利尘土飞扬道路的人疲惫的双脚，帮助一个国家看见了它曾经视而不见的东西。正因为有这些男性和女性，我今天才能站在这里。正因为有他们，我们的孩子才在一个更自由、更公平、更忠于其建国信条的国家成长。
And that is why this statue belongs in this hall -- to remind us, no matter how humble or lofty our positions, just what it is that leadership requires; just what it is that citizenship requires. Rosa Parks would have turned 100 years old this month. We do well by placing a statue of her here. But we can do no greater honor to her memory than to carry forward the power of her principle and a courage born of conviction. 这正是这尊雕像应当安放在这座大厅的原因——提醒我们，无论身居何种职位，无论职位多么卑微或崇高，领导力要求什么，公民身份又要求什么。罗莎·帕克斯本月本应满100岁。我们把她的雕像安放在这里，是做得很好的事；但对她记忆更大的敬意，莫过于传承她原则的力量，以及一种由信念生发的勇气。
May God bless the memory of Rosa Parks. 愿上帝保佑罗莎·帕克斯的记忆。
And may God bless these United States of America. 愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。