I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. 今天，我很高兴能与大家一起参加这场将载入史册的自由示威活动，这是我们国家历史上最大规模的自由示威。
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. 五十年前，一位伟大的美国人——我们今天正站在他象征性的阴影下——签署了《解放宣言》。这一重大法令如同一盏伟大的希望灯塔，照亮了数百万在不公正的烈焰中煎熬的黑人奴隶。它如同欢乐的黎明，结束了他们漫长的囚禁之夜。
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. 然而，一百年后的今天，黑人仍然没有自由。一百年后的今天，黑人的生活仍然被种族隔离的镣铐和歧视的锁链残酷地束缚着。一百年后的今天，黑人在物质繁荣的汪洋大海中生活在贫困的孤岛上。一百年后的今天，黑人仍然在美国社会的角落里挣扎，发现自己在自己的土地上成了流亡者。因此，我们今天来到这里，是为了揭露这种可耻的状况。
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." 从某种意义上说，我们来到国家的首都，是为了兑现一张支票。当我们共和国的缔造者写下《宪法》和《独立宣言》的壮丽词句时，他们签署了一张每一个美国人都有权继承的期票。这张期票承诺，所有的人——是的，黑人和白人——都将享有"生命、自由和追求幸福"的"不可剥夺的权利"。今天很明显，美国在涉及有色公民方面已经违背了这张期票。美国没有履行这一神圣义务，反而给黑人人民开了一张空头支票，一张被退回并标有"资金不足"字样的支票。
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. 但我们拒绝相信正义的银行已经破产。我们拒绝相信这个国家巨大的机会金库中资金不足。因此，我们来兑现这张支票，一张将在我们要求时给予我们自由财富和正义保障的支票。
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. 我们也来到这个神圣的地方，提醒美国注意"现在"的紧迫。现在不是进行冷静思考或采取渐进主义镇静剂的时候。现在是实现民主承诺的时候。现在是从种族隔离的黑暗荒凉山谷上升到种族正义的阳光大道的时候。现在是把我们的国家从种族不公正的流沙中提升到兄弟情谊的坚实岩石上的时候。现在是让正义成为上帝所有孩子的现实的时候。
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. 如果国家忽视这个时刻的紧迫性，那将是致命的。黑人正当不满的闷热夏天不会过去，直到自由和平等的振奋人心的秋天到来。1963年不是结束，而是开始。那些希望黑人发泄一下就会心满意足的人，如果国家恢复常态，将会有一个粗鲁的觉醒。在美国给予黑人公民权利之前，这里将既没有安宁也没有平静。反抗的旋风将继续动摇我们国家的根基，直到正义的光明日子到来。
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. 但是，我必须对站在通往正义宫殿的温暖门槛上的我的人民说一句话：在争取我们应有地位的过程中，我们不能犯错误的行为。我们不要试图通过喝苦酒和仇恨来满足对自由的渴望。我们必须永远在尊严和纪律的崇高层面上进行我们的斗争。我们不能允许我们创造性的抗议堕落为暴力行为。一次又一次，我们必须上升到用灵魂力量对抗肉体力量的崇高高度。
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. 席卷黑人社区的非凡新战斗精神不应导致我们不信任所有白人，因为许多白人兄弟——正如他们今天的出席所证明的——已经意识到他们的命运与我们的命运紧密相连。他们已经意识到他们的自由与我们的自由不可分割地联系在一起。
We cannot walk alone. 我们不能单独行走。
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. 当我们行走时，我们必须保证我们将永远向前迈进。
We cannot turn back. 我们不能回头。
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." 有些人问民权运动的支持者："你们什么时候才会满意？"只要黑人仍然是警察暴行难以言喻的恐怖的受害者，我们就永远不会满意。只要我们疲惫不堪的身体不能在公路上的汽车旅馆和城市里的旅馆找到住宿，我们就永远不会满意。只要黑人的基本流动是从一个较小的贫民窟到一个较大的贫民窟，我们就不能满意。只要我们的孩子被写着"仅供白人"的标志剥夺了自我意识和尊严，我们就永远不会满意。只要密西西比州的黑人不能投票，而纽约州的黑人认为他们没有什么可投票的，我们就不能满意。不，不，我们不满意，我们将不会满意，直到"正义像水一样滚滚而下，正义像强大的溪流一样。"
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. 我并非没有意识到，你们中的一些人是经历了巨大的考验和磨难来到这里的。你们中的一些人刚刚从狭窄的监狱牢房里出来。你们中的一些人来自那些你们为自由而奋斗的地区，那里的迫害风暴使你们伤痕累累，警察暴行的狂风使你们步履蹒跚。你们是创造性苦难的老兵。继续怀着这样的信念工作：不劳而获的苦难是救赎性的。回到密西西比去，回到阿拉巴马去，回到南卡罗来纳去，回到佐治亚去，回到路易斯安那去，回到我们北方城市的贫民窟和贫民区去，知道这种情况无论如何都能够而且将会改变。今天，我对你们说，我的朋友们，让我们不要在绝望的山谷里徘徊。
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 因此，即使我们面临今天和明天的困难，我仍然有一个梦想。这是一个深深植根于美国梦想的梦想。
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." 我有一个梦想，有一天这个国家将站起来，实现其信条的真正含义："我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等。"
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. 我有一个梦想，有一天在佐治亚州的红色山丘上，昔日奴隶的儿子和昔日奴隶主的儿子将能够一起坐在兄弟情谊的桌子旁。
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. 我有一个梦想，有一天即使是密西西比州——一个被不公正的炎热和压迫的炎热所炙烤的州——也将变成自由和正义的绿洲。
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. 我有一个梦想，有一天我的四个孩子将在一个不以肤色，而是以品格优劣来评价他们的国度里生活。
I have a dream today! 今天，我有一个梦想！
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. 我有一个梦想，有一天，在阿拉巴马州——那里有恶毒的种族主义者，那里的州长嘴唇上滴着"干预"和"无效"的字眼——有一天就在阿拉巴马州，黑人小男孩和黑人小女孩将能够与白人小男孩和白人小女孩手拉手，如同兄弟姐妹。
I have a dream today! 今天，我有一个梦想！
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together." 我有一个梦想，有一天每个山谷都将被抬高，每座山丘和山脉都将被降低，崎岖的地方将变得平坦，弯曲的地方将变得笔直；"主的荣耀将被揭示，所有的人都将一起看到它。"
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. 这是我们的希望，这是我带回南方的信念。
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. 有了这个信念，我们将能够从绝望的山中凿出一块希望的石头。有了这个信念，我们将能够把我们国家嘈杂的不和谐声变成一首美丽的兄弟情谊交响曲。有了这个信念，我们将能够一起工作，一起祈祷，一起奋斗，一起坐牢，一起为自由挺身而出，知道我们总有一天会自由。
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: 这将是那一天——这将是所有上帝的孩子都能够用新的意义歌唱的那一天：
My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring! 我的祖国，美丽的自由之乡，我为你歌唱。我父亲死去的地方，朝圣者自豪的土地，从每一座山坡，让自由响起！
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. 如果美国要成为一个伟大的国家，这必须成为现实。
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. 因此，让自由从新罕布什尔州的壮丽山顶响起。
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. 让自由从纽约州的雄伟山脉响起。
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. 让自由从宾夕法尼亚州高耸的阿勒格尼山脉响起。
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. 让自由从科罗拉多州白雪皑皑的落基山脉响起。
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. 让自由从加利福尼亚州弯曲的山坡响起。
But not only that: 但不仅如此：
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. 让自由从佐治亚州的石山响起。
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. 让自由从田纳西州的瞭望山响起。
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. 让自由从密西西比州的每一座山丘和小丘响起。
From every mountainside, let freedom ring. 从每一座山坡，让自由响起。
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: 当这一切发生时，当我们让自由响起，当我们让它从每个村庄和每个小村庄响起，从每个州和每个城市响起，我们将能够加速那一天的到来，那时所有上帝的孩子——黑人和白人、犹太人和非犹太人、新教徒和天主教徒——将能够手拉手，用古老的黑人灵歌的歌词歌唱：
Free at last! Free at last! 自由了！自由了！
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! 感谢全能的上帝，我们终于自由了！