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，我很高兴与你们一同参加这场将载入史册的活动，这将成为我国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. 一百年前，一位伟大的美国人——我们今天正站在他的象征阴影下——签署了《解放宣言》。这项历史性的法令像一盏巨大的希望灯塔，照亮了数百万被不公正的烈焰炙烤的黑奴。它像欢乐的黎明，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. 但一百年后，黑人仍然没有自由。一百年后，黑人的生活仍然被种族隔离的镣铐和歧视的锁链可悲地束缚着。一百年后，黑人在物质繁荣的浩瀚海洋中生活在贫困的孤岛上。一百年后，黑人仍然在美国社会的角落里苦苦挣扎，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，是为了揭示这种可耻的状况。
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，我们来到国家首都兑现一张支票。当我们共和国的缔造者写下《宪法》和《独立宣言》中的壮丽文字时，他们签署了一张本票，每个美国人都应继承这张本票。这张本票承诺，所有的人，是的，黑人和白人，都将被保障享有"生命、自由和追求幸福"的"不可剥夺的权利"。今天，显而易见的是，美国对其有色公民违约了。美国没有履行这一神圣义务，而是给了黑人一张空头支票，一张被退回并标注"资金不足"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之银行已经破产。我们拒绝相信这个国家巨大的机会宝库中资金不足。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的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，提醒美国现在的紧迫性。现在不是沉溺于冷静或服用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阳光大道的时候。现在是将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。现在是让正义成为所有上帝的孩子们的现实的时候。
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. 国家忽视这一刻的紧迫性将是致命的。黑人合法不满的酷热夏天不会过去，直到自由和平等的振奋秋天到来。1963年不是结束，而是开始。那些希望黑人只是需要发泄一下情绪、现在会满足的人，如果国家回到正常状态，将会被粗暴地惊醒。在美国，在黑人获得公民权利之前，将不会有安宁。反抗的旋风将继续动摇我们国家的根基，直到正义的明亮日子到来。
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. 但我必须对我的人民说些什么，他们站在通往正义宫殿的温暖门槛上：在争取我们应有地位的过程中，我们不能犯下错误的行为。让我们不要通过喝下痛苦和仇恨的杯子来满足我们对自由的渴望。我们必须永远在尊严和纪律的高度上进行我们的斗争。我们不能允许我们创造性的抗议堕落为暴力行动。一次又一次，我们必须上升到用灵魂力量对抗肉体力量的壮丽高度。
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. 席卷黑人社区的新的战斗精神绝不能导致我们不信任所有白人，因为正如他们今天在场所证明的，我们许多白人兄弟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密不可分。
We cannot walk alone. 我们不能独自前行。
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. 当我们行走时，我们必须发誓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." 有人问民权的信徒们："你们什么时候才能满意？"只要黑人仍然是警察暴行不可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的汽车旅馆和城市的酒店找到住宿，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更大的贫民窟，我们就不会满意。只要我们的孩子被"只许白人入内"的标志剥夺了自我和尊严，我们就永远不会满意。只要密西西比州的黑人不能投票，纽约的黑人认为他没有什么可投票的，我们就不会满意。不，不，我们不满意，我们将不会满意，直到"正义如流水滚滚而下，公义如大江奔腾不息。"
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苦难才来到这里的。你们中的一些人刚从狭窄的牢房出来。你们中的一些人来自那些你们追求自由的地方，在那里你们被迫害的风暴摧残，被警察暴行的狂风击倒。你们是创造性痛苦的老兵。继续怀着信念工作吧，相信不应得的痛苦是救赎性的。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黑人区去，要知道无论如何，这种情况能够而且将会改变。让我们不要在绝望的山谷中沉沦，我今天对你们说，我的朋友们。
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，尽管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山上，昔日奴隶的儿子和昔日奴隶主的儿子将能够坐在一起，共叙兄弟情谊。
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——一个被不公正的酷热和压迫的酷热所炙烤的州——也将转变为自由和正义的绿洲。
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生活在一个不以肤色而是以品格来评判他们的国家里。
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，黑人小男孩和小女孩将能够与白人小男孩和小女孩手拉手，像兄弟姐妹一样。
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，崎岖的地方将变成平原，弯曲的地方将变得笔直；"主的荣耀将被揭示，所有的人都将一同看到它。"
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. 这就是我们的希望，这就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. 怀着这个信念，我们将能够从绝望的山上凿出希望的石头。怀着这个信念，我们将能够把我们国家嘈杂的不和谐变成一曲美丽的兄弟情谊交响曲。怀着这个信念，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，因为我们知道总有一天我们会自由。
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们能够以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，你是自由的甜蜜土地，我为你歌唱。我父亲安息的地方，清教徒引以为傲的土地，从每一座山坡上，让自由之声响彻！
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. 所以让自由之声从新罕布什尔州的巍峨山巅响起。
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. 让自由之声从纽约州的雄伟山脉响起。
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. 让自由之声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. 让自由之声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. 让自由之声从加利福尼亚州蜿蜒的山坡响起。
But not only that: 不仅如此：
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. 让自由之声从佐治亚州的斯通山响起。
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. 让自由之声从田纳西州的瞭望山响起。
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. 让自由之声从密西西比州的每一座山丘和小丘响起。
From every mountainside, let freedom ring. 从每一座山坡上，让自由之声响彻。
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，当我们让自由之声响起，当我们让它从每个村庄和每个小镇，从每个州和每个城市响起时，我们将能够加速那一天的到来，那时所有上帝的孩子们，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! 终于自由了！终于自由了！
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! 感谢全能的上帝，我们终于自由了！