Please be seated. Let me begin by saying a word to Dr. Dorothy Height’s sister, Ms. Aldridge. To some, she was a mentor. To all, she was a friend. But to you, she was family, and my family offers yours our sympathy for your loss. 请各位就座。首先，我想对多萝西·海特博士的姐姐奥德里奇女士说几句话。对一些人来说，她是良师；对所有人而言，她是挚友；但对您而言，她是家人。我和我的家人对您的丧亲之痛感同身受。
We are gathered here today to celebrate the life, and mourn the passing, of Dr. Dorothy Height. It is fitting that we do so here, in our National Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Here, in a place of great honor. Here, in the House of God. Surrounded by the love of family and of friends. The love in this sanctuary is a testament to a life lived righteously; a life that lifted other lives; a life that changed this country for the better over the course of nearly one century here on Earth. 我们今日齐聚于此，既为悼念多萝西·海特博士的辞世，也颂扬她的一生。我们选择在圣彼得与圣保罗国家大教堂举行告别仪式，是恰当的。这里，是一处至高无上的荣耀之所；这里，是上帝的殿宇；这里，环绕着亲友的爱。这座圣殿中洋溢的爱意，见证了她一生的义行——一个提升了他人生命的一生，一个在近一个世纪的岁月里让这个国家变得更好的一生。
Michelle and I didn’t know Dr. Height as well, or as long, as many of you. We were reminded during a previous moment in the service, when you have a nephew who’s 88 -- you’ve lived a full life. 米歇尔和我认识海特博士的时间，不如在座许多人那么久，也不如他们那么深。仪式方才的一个环节提醒了我们：当你有一个88岁的侄子——你已经度过了充实的一生。
But we did come to know her in the early days of my campaign. And we came to love her, as so many loved her. We came to love her stories. And we loved her smile. And we loved those hats -- that she wore like a crown -- regal. In the White House, she was a regular. She came by not once, not twice -- 21 times she stopped by the White House. Took part in our discussions around health care reform in her final months. 但我们是在我竞选初期结识她的。我们也像许多人一样爱上了她。我们爱上她的故事，爱上她的微笑，也爱她戴帽子时如同王冠一般雍容华贵。在白宫，她是常客。她来访过不是一两次，而是21次。她生命的最后几个月，还参与了我们围绕医改的讨论。
Last February, I was scheduled to see her and other civil rights leaders to discuss the pressing problems of unemployment -- Reverend Sharpton, Ben Jealous of the NAACP, Marc Morial of the National Urban League. Then we discovered that Washington was about to be blanketed by the worst blizzard in record -- two feet of snow. 去年二月，我原定与她会面，共同讨论失业这一紧迫问题，与会者还有阿尔·夏普顿牧师、全国有色人种协进会的本·吉利斯、全国城市联盟的马克·莫里亚尔等民权领袖。后来我们得知，华盛顿即将迎来有记录以来最严重的暴风雪——降雪量达两英尺。
So I suggested to one of my aides, we should call Dr. Height and say we're happy to reschedule the meeting. Certainly if the others come, she should not feel obliged. True to form, Dr. Height insisted on coming, despite the blizzard, never mind that she was in a wheelchair. She was not about to let just a bunch of men -- in this meeting. It was only when the car literally could not get to her driveway that she reluctantly decided to stay home. But she still sent a message -- about what needed to be done. 于是我向一位助理建议，我们应当给海特博士打电话，告诉她我们很乐意改期。如果其他人能来，她也不必勉强。果然不出所料，海特博士坚持前来，不顾暴风雪，更别提她还坐在轮椅上。她绝不让这场会议变成一屋子男人的聚会。直到汽车实在无法驶近她家门前的车道，她才勉强决定留在家中。但她仍托人捎来口信——说明应当做哪些事。
And I tell that story partly because it brings a smile to my face, but also because it captures the quiet, dogged, dignified persistence that all of us who loved Dr. Height came to know so well -- an attribute that we understand she learned early on. 我讲这个故事，一方面是因为它让我会心一笑，另一方面是因为它捕捉到了所有敬爱海特博士的人所熟知的那种安静、坚韧而有尊严的执着——这是一种我们明白她很早就养成的品格。
Born in the capital of the old Confederacy, brought north by her parents as part of that great migration, Dr. Height was raised in another age, in a different America, beyond the experience of many. It’s hard to imagine, I think, life in the first decades of that last century when the elderly woman that we knew was only a girl. 海特博士出生于旧南部邦联的首府，父母作为大迁徙的一员将她带到北方。她在另一个时代、一个不同的美国长大，那里的境遇超出许多人的想象。我想，当那位我们所熟悉的老人还只是个女孩时，上世纪最初几十年的生活实在难以想象。
Jim Crow ruled the South. The Klan was on the rise -- a powerful political force. Lynching was all too often the penalty for the offense of black skin. Slaves had been freed within living memory, but too often, their children, their grandchildren remained captive, because they were denied justice and denied equality, denied opportunity, denied a chance to pursue their dreams. 当时，吉姆·克劳法统治着南方；三K党势头正盛，是一股强大的政治力量。私刑常常是对“黑皮肤之罪”的惩罚。奴隶制在人们记忆中刚刚被废除，但他们的子女、孙辈却往往仍受桎梏——因为他们被剥夺了正义与平等，被剥夺了机会，被剥夺了追逐梦想的可能。
The progress that followed -- progress that so many of you helped to achieve, progress that ultimately made it possible for Michelle and me to be here as President and First Lady -- that progress came slowly. 此后取得的进步——也就是你们许多人共同推动、最终使米歇尔和我能以总统和第一夫人的身份站在这里的进步——来得很慢。
Progress came from the collective effort of multiple generations of Americans. From preachers and lawyers, and thinkers and doers, men and women like Dr. Height, who took it upon themselves -- often at great risk -- to change this country for the better. 进步来自几代美国人的共同努力。来自牧师、律师、思想家和实干家，来自像海特博士这样挺身而出、往往冒着巨大风险去让这个国家变得更好的人。
From men like W.E.B Du Bois and A. Philip Randolph; women like Mary McLeod Bethune and Betty Friedan -- they’re Americans whose names we know. They are leaders whose legacies we teach. They are giants who fill our history books. Well, Dr. Dorothy Height deserves a place in this pantheon. She, too, deserves a place in our history books. She, too, deserves a place of honor in America’s memory. 来自杜波依斯、A. 菲利普·伦道夫这样的男性，来自玛丽·麦克劳德·白求恩、贝蒂·弗里丹这样的女性——这些美国人，我们耳熟能详。他们是后人传颂其遗产的领袖，是写满历史书页的巨人。而多萝西·海特博士，也理应在这座伟人殿堂中占有一席之地，也理应写进我们的历史书，也理应在美国的记忆中享有一席荣耀之地。
Look at her body of work. Desegregating the YWCA. Laying the groundwork for integration on Wednesdays in Mississippi. Lending pigs to poor farmers as a sustainable source of income. Strategizing with civil rights leaders, holding her own, the only woman in the room, Queen Esther to this Moses Generation -- even as she led the National Council of Negro Women with vision and energy -- with vision and energy, vision and class. 看看她的毕生事业吧。推动YWCA废除种族隔离；为密西西比的“周三整合”奠定基础；向贫农出借猪只作为可持续收入来源；与民权领袖共谋大计，在场的唯一女性，是这“摩西一代”中的“以斯帖王后”——同时以远见与活力，远见与活力，远见与气度，领导着全国黑人妇女理事会。
But we remember her not solely for all she did during the civil rights movement. We remember her for all she did over a lifetime, behind the scenes, to broaden the movement’s reach. To shine a light on stable families and tight-knit communities. To make us see the drive for civil rights and women’s rights not as a separate struggle, but as part of a larger movement to secure the rights of all humanity, regardless of gender, regardless of race, regardless of ethnicity. 但我们缅怀她，不仅是因为她在民权运动中所做的一切，更是因为她一生在幕后所做的一切，去拓展这场运动的疆界。去照亮稳定的家庭和紧密的社区。去让我们看到，民权与妇女权利并非两场孤立的斗争，而是一场更大运动的一部分——旨在捍卫全人类的权利，不分性别、不分种族、不分族裔。
It’s an unambiguous record of righteous work, worthy of remembrance, worthy of recognition. And yet, one of the ironies is, is that year after year, decade in, decade out, Dr. Height went about her work quietly, without fanfare, without self-promotion. She never cared about who got the credit. She didn’t need to see her picture in the papers. 这是一份无可辩驳的义行记录，值得铭记，值得嘉奖。然而，其中一个耐人寻味之处在于：年复一年，数十载如一日，海特博士始终默默工作，不事张扬，不图自利。她从不在乎谁领了功劳，也不需要在报纸上看到自己的照片。
She understood that the movement gathered strength from the bottom up, those unheralded men and women who don't always make it into the history books but who steadily insisted on their dignity, on their manhood and womanhood. She wasn’t interested in credit. What she cared about was the cause. The cause of justice. The cause of equality. The cause of opportunity. Freedom’s cause. 她明白，这场运动的力量源自底层——那些未必能写进历史书、却始终坚持捍卫自身尊严与人格的平凡男女。她不在乎功劳，她在乎的是事业——是正义的事业、平等的事业、机会的事业，是自由的事业。
And that willingness to subsume herself, that humility and that grace, is why we honor Dr. Dorothy Height. As it is written in the Gospel of Matthew: “For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” I don’t think the author of the Gospel would mind me rephrasing: “whoever humbles herself will be exalted.” 正是她这种甘愿隐没自我、这份谦卑与优雅，让我们在此致敬多萝西·海特博士。正如《马太福音》所记：“凡自高的，必降为卑；凡自卑的，必升为高。”我想，福音书的作者不会介意我换个说法：“凡自卑的她，必升为高。”
One of my favorite moments with Dr. Height -- this was just a few months ago -- we had decided to put up the Emancipation Proclamation in the Oval Office, and we invited some elders to share reflections of the movement. And she came and it was a inter-generational event, so we had young children there, as well as elders, and the elders were asked to share stories. 我与海特博士之间最珍视的一段回忆，发生在几个月前。当时我们决定在椭圆形办公室悬挂《解放奴隶宣言》，便邀请几位长者来分享对那场运动的回忆。她来了，那是一场跨代际的活动，所以在场既有长者，也有孩童，长者们被邀请讲述故事。
And she talked about attending a dinner in the 1940s at the home of Dr. Benjamin Mays, then president of Morehouse College. And seated at the table that evening was a 15-year-old student, “a gifted child,” as she described him, filled with a sense of purpose, who was trying to decide whether to enter medicine, or law, or the ministry. 她谈起上世纪四十年代在莫尔豪斯学院时任院长本杰明·梅斯博士家中参加的一次晚宴。当晚坐在桌旁的，还有一个十五岁的学生——她形容那是个“天赋异禀的孩子”，满怀使命感，正在为选择医学、法律还是神职而举棋不定。
And many years later, after that gifted child had become a gifted preacher -- I’m sure he had been told to be on his best behavior -- after he led a bus boycott in Montgomery, and inspired a nation with his dreams, he delivered a sermon on what he called “the drum major instinct” -- a sermon that said we all have the desire to be first, we all want to be at the front of the line. 多年以后，这个天赋异禀的孩子成长为一位天赋异禀的布道者——我确信他当时被叮嘱要规规矩矩——在他领导了蒙哥马利公交车抵制运动、用梦想激励了一个国家之后，他作了一场布道，主题是他所说的“鼓手本能”——这场布道说，我们每个人都有想成为第一的渴望，我们都想站在队伍的最前面。
The great test of a life, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, is to harness that instinct; to redirect it towards advancing the greater good; toward changing a community and a country for the better; toward doing the Lord’s work. 马丁·路德·金博士说，生命的伟大考验，在于驾驭这种本能，将其重新引向推动更大的善，引向让社区和国家变得更好，引向成就主的事业。
I sometimes think Dr. King must have had Dorothy Height in mind when he gave that speech. For Dorothy Height met the test. Dorothy Height embodied that instinct. Dorothy Height was a drum major for justice. A drum major for equality. A drum major for freedom. A drum major for service. 我有时想，金博士发表那场布道时，脑海中一定浮现了多萝西·海特。因为多萝西·海特经受住了这场考验。多萝西·海特体现了这种本能。多萝西·海特是正义的鼓手，是平等的鼓手，是自由的鼓手，是服务的鼓手。
And the lesson she would want us to leave with today -- a lesson she lived out each and every day -- is that we can all be first in service. We can all be drum majors for a righteous cause. 她希望我们今日带走的启示——也是她每一天都在践行的启示——是：我们每个人都可以在服务中争第一。我们每个人都可以成为某项正义事业的鼓手。
So let us live out that lesson. Let us honor her life by changing this country for the better as long as we are blessed to live. 让我们践行这一启示。让我们以改变这个国家为荣，以此纪念她的一生——只要我们还被赐予生命。
May God bless Dr. Dorothy Height and the union that she made more perfect. 愿上帝赐福多萝西·海特博士，赐福她所完善的这个联邦。