Ladies and Gentlemen, 女士们，先生们：
I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening, because I have some -- some very sad news for all of you -- Could you lower those signs, please? -- I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world; and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee. 今晚我只打算和你们谈一分钟左右，因为我有一些——一些非常悲伤的消息要告诉你们——请把那些牌子放下来好吗？——我有一些非常悲伤的消息要告诉你们，我认为，这也是所有同胞和全世界热爱和平的人们的悲伤消息；那就是马丁·路德·金今晚在田纳西州孟菲斯被枪杀身亡。
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black -- considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible -- you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge. 马丁·路德·金一生致力于人与人之间的爱与正义。他为此献出了生命。在这个困难的日子里，在这个对美国来说困难的时刻，也许值得问一问我们是一个什么样的国家，我们想要走向哪个方向。对于你们中那些是黑人的人——考虑到证据显然表明是白人负有责任——你们可能会充满痛苦、仇恨和复仇的欲望。
We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization -- black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion, and love. 我们可以作为一个国家朝着那个方向前进，走向更大的两极分化——黑人与黑人之间，白人与白人之间，彼此充满仇恨。或者我们可以像马丁·路德·金那样努力去理解，去领悟，用理解、同情和爱来取代那种暴力，那种已经蔓延到我们土地上的血迹斑斑。
For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill with -- be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man. 对于你们中那些是黑人、可能会被充满仇恨和不信任这种不公正行为的情绪所诱惑的人，对所有白人产生仇恨和不信任，我只想说，我在自己心中也能感受到同样的感受。我的一位家人被杀害了，但他是被一个白人杀害的。
But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times. 但我们在美国必须做出努力。我们必须努力去理解，去超越，或者度过这些相当困难的时期。
My favorite poem, my -- my favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote: 我最喜欢的诗人是埃斯库罗斯。他曾经写道：
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. 即使在我们的睡梦中，无法忘记的痛苦 一滴一滴落在心上， 直到在我们自己的绝望中， 违背我们的意愿， 智慧 通过上帝可怕的恩典降临。
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another; and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black. 我们美国需要的不是分裂；我们美国需要的不是仇恨；我们美国需要的不是暴力和无法无天，而是爱、智慧和对彼此的同情；以及对那些仍在我们国家受苦的人的正义感，无论他们是白人还是黑人。
So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King -- yeah, it's true -- but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love -- a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke. 所以今晚我请求你们回家，为马丁·路德·金的家人祈祷——是的，这是真的——但更重要的是为我们共同热爱的国家祈祷——为我所说的理解和同情祈祷。
We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past, but we -- and we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder. 我们国家可以做得很好。我们会遇到困难时期。我们过去遇到过困难时期，但我们——而且我们未来也会遇到困难时期。这不是暴力的终结；这不是无法无天的终结；这也不是混乱的终结。
But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land. 但这个国家绝大多数白人和绝大多数黑人都希望共同生活，希望提高我们的生活质量，希望为所有在我们土地上生活的人争取正义。
And let's dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people. 让我们致力于希腊人多年前写下的话：驯服人类的野蛮，让这个世界的生活变得温柔。让我们为此献身，并为我们的国家和人民祈祷。
Thank you very much. 非常感谢你们。