Good afternoon, everybody. This morning, I spoke with, and Vice President Biden spoke with, Mayor Joe Riley and other leaders of Charleston to express our deep sorrow over the senseless murders that took place last night. 大家下午好。今天上午，我和拜登副总统分别与乔·莱利市长以及查尔斯顿市的其他领导人通了话，对昨晚发生的无谓谋杀表达我们深切的悲痛。
Michelle and I know several members of Emanuel AME Church. We knew their pastor, Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who, along with eight others, gathered in prayer and fellowship and was murdered last night. And to say our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families, and their community doesn't say enough to convey the heartache and the sadness and the anger that we feel. 米歇尔和我认识伊曼纽尔非裔卫理公会教堂的几位成员。我们认识他们的牧师克莱门塔·平克尼牧师，他昨晚和其他八人一起在祷告和团契中聚集时惨遭杀害。说我们的思念和祷告与他们、他们的家人以及他们的社区同在，都不足以表达我们心中的伤痛、悲伤和愤怒。
Any death of this sort is a tragedy. Any shooting involving multiple victims is a tragedy. There is something particularly heartbreaking about the death happening in a place in which we seek solace and we seek peace, in a place of worship. 任何此类死亡都是一场悲剧。任何涉及多名受害者的枪击事件都是一场悲剧。而死亡发生在一个我们寻求慰藉与和平的地方，一个礼拜的场所，这尤其令人心碎。
Mother Emanuel is, in fact, more than a church. This is a place of worship that was founded by African Americans seeking liberty. This is a church that was burned to the ground because its worships -- worshipers worked to end slavery. When there were laws banning all-black church gatherings, they conducted services in secret. When there was a nonviolent movement to bring our country closer in line with our highest ideals, some of our brightest leaders spoke and led marches from this church's steps. This is a sacred place in the history of Charleston and in the history of America. 事实上，伊曼纽尔母亲教堂不只是一座教堂。这处礼拜场所由寻求自由的非裔美国人所创立。这座教堂曾被焚毁殆尽，因为它的信徒——信徒们致力于终结奴隶制。当法律禁止全黑人教堂集会时，他们秘密地举行礼拜。当一场非暴力运动推动我们的国家更贴近我们的最高理想时，一些最杰出的领袖从这座教堂的台阶上发表演讲、领导游行。在查尔斯顿的历史上，在美国的历史上，这都是一处圣地。
The FBI is now on the scene with local police, and more of the Bureau's best are on the way to join them. The Attorney General has announced plans for the FBI to open a hate crime investigation. We understand that the suspect is in custody. And I'll let the best of law enforcement do its work to make sure that justice is served. 联邦调查局目前已与当地警方一同在现场，该局更多精英人员正赶赴加入他们的行列。司法部长已宣布联邦调查局计划展开仇恨犯罪调查。我们获悉嫌疑人已被拘留。我会让最优秀的执法人员开展工作，确保正义得到伸张。
Until the investigation is complete, I'm necessarily constrained in terms of talking about the details of the case. But I don't need to be constrained about the emotions that tragedies like this raise. I've had to make statements like this too many times. Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times. We don't have all the facts, but we do know that, once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun. Now is the time for mourning and for healing. 在调查完成之前，我在谈论案件细节方面必然受到限制。但对于这类悲剧引发的情感，我不需要克制。我已经不得不多次发表这样的声明。像这样的社区已经不得不多次承受这样的悲剧。我们尚未掌握全部事实，但我们确实知道，又有无辜的人惨遭杀害，部分原因是想要施暴的人可以毫不费力地弄到一把枪。现在是哀悼和治愈的时刻。
But let's be clear: At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn't happen in other places with this kind of frequency. And it is in our power to do something about it. 但让我们明确一点：在某个时刻，我们作为一个国家将不得不正视这样一个事实，即这种大规模暴力不会发生在其他发达国家。它不会以这种频率在其他地方发生。而我们有能力对此采取行动。
I say that recognizing the politics in this town foreclose a lot of those avenues right now. But it would be wrong for us not to acknowledge it. And at some point it's going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it, and for us to be able to shift how we think about the issue of gun violence collectively. 我之所以这样说，是因为我认识到目前这个城市的政治环境阻断了很多这样的途径。但如果我们不承认这一点，那就是错误的。在某个时刻，美国人民必须直面这个问题，我们必须能够集体转变我们对枪支暴力问题的思考方式。
The fact that this took place in a black church obviously also raises questions about a dark part of our history. This is not the first time that black churches have been attacked. And we know that hatred across races and faiths pose a particular threat to our democracy and our ideals. 这起事件发生在一座黑人教堂，这显然也引发了对我们历史黑暗一面的追问。这不是黑人教堂第一次遭到袭击。我们知道，跨越种族和信仰的仇恨对我们的民主和理想构成了特殊威胁。
The good news is I am confident that the outpouring of unity and strength and fellowship and love across Charleston today, from all races, from all faiths, from all places of worship indicates the degree to which those old vestiges of hatred can be overcome. That, certainly, was Dr. King's hope just over 50 years ago, after four little girls were killed in a bombing in a black church in Birmingham, Alabama. 好消息是，我有信心，今天查尔斯顿全市上下所涌现的团结、力量、团契与爱——来自所有种族、所有信仰、所有礼拜场所——表明那些仇恨的旧残余是可以被克服的。当然，这正是五十多年前金博士的希望，当时在阿拉巴马州伯明翰的一座黑人教堂爆炸案中，四名小女孩惨遭杀害。
He said they lived meaningful lives, and they died nobly. "They say to each of us," Dr. King said: 他说，她们活得有意义，死得崇高。金博士说："她们对我们每一个人说："
...black and white alike, that we must substitute courage for caution. They say to us that we must be concerned not merely with [about] who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers. Their death says to us that we must work passionately and unrelentingly for the realization of the American Dream. ……黑人和白人都一样，我们必须用勇气代替谨慎。她们对我们说，我们不仅要关心[关于]是谁谋杀了她们，更要关心产生这些凶手的制度、生活方式和哲学。她们的死告诉我们，我们必须满怀热情、坚持不懈地为实现美国梦而奋斗。
And if one will hold on, he will discover that God walks with him, and that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace. 而如果一个人坚持下去，他会发现上帝与他同在，上帝能够将你从绝望的疲惫中提升到希望的喜悦，将黑暗荒凉的山谷转变为内心宁静的阳光小径。
Reverend Pinckney and his congregation understood that spirit. Their Christian faith compelled them to reach out not just to members of their congregation, or to members of their own communities, but to all in need. They opened their doors to strangers who might enter a church in search of healing or redemption. 平克尼牧师和他的会众懂得这种精神。他们的基督教信仰驱使他们不仅向会众成员或自己社区的成员伸出援手，也向所有有需要的人伸出援手。他们向可能进入教堂寻求治愈或救赎的陌生人敞开大门。
Mother Emanuel church and its congregation have risen before -- from flames, from an earthquake, from other dark times -- to give hope to generations of Charlestonians. And with our prayers and our love, and the buoyancy of hope, it will rise again now as a place of peace. 伊曼纽尔母亲教堂及其会众曾多次浴火重生——从烈焰中、从地震中、从其他黑暗时刻中——给一代又一代的查尔斯顿人带来希望。凭借我们的祷告和爱，以及希望的力量，它如今将再次崛起，成为和平之地。
Thank you. 谢谢大家。