Thank you. Thank you. Giving all praise and honor to God for bringing us here today. 谢谢。谢谢。将一切赞美和荣耀归于上帝，感谢他带我们来到今天。
I must begin because at the Unity breakfast this morning I was saving for last and the list was so long I left him out after that introduction. So I'm going to start by saying how much I appreciate the friendship and the support and the outstanding work that he does each and every day, not just in Capitol Hill but also back here in the district. Please give a warm round of applause for your Congressman Artur Davis. 我必须先说一下，因为今天早上在团结早餐会上，我把他留到最后才介绍，名单太长，结果介绍之后我把他漏掉了。所以我要先说，我多么感激他的友谊、支持以及他每天出色的工作，不仅是在国会山，也包括回到本选区。请为你们的国会议员阿图尔·戴维斯热烈鼓掌。
It is a great honor to be here. Reverend Jackson, thank you so much. To the family of Brown A.M.E, to the good Bishop Kirkland, thank you for your wonderful message and your leadership. 能来到这里是我极大的荣幸。杰克逊牧师，非常感谢您。布朗非洲卫理公会的家人们，尊敬的柯克兰主教，感谢您精彩的讲道和您的领导。
I want to acknowledge one of the great heroes of American history and American life, somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage, somebody who I have admired all my life and were it not for him, I'm not sure I'd be here today, Congressman John Lewis. 我要向美国历史和美国生活中的一位伟大英雄致敬，他体现了正直与勇气的精髓，我一生都敬仰他，若不是因为他，我不确定我今天能否站在这里——国会议员约翰·刘易斯。
I'm thankful to him. To all the distinguished guests and clergy, I'm not sure I'm going to thank Reverend Lowery because he stole the show. I was mentioning earlier, I know we've got C.T. Vivian in the audience, and when you have to speak in front of somebody who Martin Luther King said was the greatest preacher he ever heard, then you've got some problems. 我感谢他。在座的所有贵宾和神职人员，我不确定是否要感谢洛厄里牧师，因为他抢了风头。我刚才提到，我知道C.T.维维安也在听众中，当你不得不在一个被马丁·路德·金称为他所听过的最伟大布道者面前讲话时，你就有麻烦了。
And I'm a little nervous about following so many great preachers. But I'm hoping that the spirit moves me and to all my colleagues who have given me such a warm welcome, thank you very much for allowing me to speak to you here today. 跟随这么多伟大的布道者之后，我有点紧张。但我希望圣灵能感动我，也感谢所有同事给我如此热情的欢迎，非常感谢你们允许我今天在这里对你们讲话。
You know, several weeks ago, after I had announced that I was running for the Presidency of the United States, I stood in front of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois; where Abraham Lincoln delivered his speech declaring, drawing in scripture, that a house divided against itself could not stand. 你们知道，几周前，在我宣布竞选美国总统之后，我站在伊利诺伊州斯普林菲尔德的旧州议会大厦前；林肯曾在那里发表演讲，引用经文说，一栋分裂的房子无法屹立。
And I stood and I announced that I was running for the presidency. And there were a lot of commentators, as they are prone to do, who questioned the audacity of a young man like myself, haven't been in Washington too long. 我站在那里宣布竞选总统。有很多评论员，他们向来如此，质疑像我这样一个年轻人、一个在华盛顿待的时间还不长的人的胆量。
And I acknowledge that there is a certain presumptuousness about this. 我承认，这确实有些冒昧。
But I got a letter from a friend of some of yours named Reverend Otis Moss Jr. in Cleveland, and his son, Otis Moss III is the Pastor at my church and I must send greetings from Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. but I got a letter giving me encouragement and saying how proud he was that I had announced and encouraging me to stay true to my ideals and my values and not to be fearful. 但我收到了一封来自你们一些人的朋友——克利夫兰的小奥蒂斯·莫斯牧师的信，他的儿子小奥蒂斯·莫斯三世是我所在教会的牧师，我必须转达耶利米·A·赖特博士的问候。我收到一封信，给我鼓励，说他为我宣布竞选感到多么骄傲，并鼓励我坚守自己的理想和价值观，不要恐惧。
And he said, if there's some folks out there who are questioning whether or not you should run, just tell them to look at the story of Joshua because you're part of the Joshua generation. 他说，如果外面有些人质疑你是否应该参选，就告诉他们看看约书亚的故事，因为你是约书亚一代的一分子。
So I just want to talk a little about Moses and Aaron and Joshua, because we are in the presence today of a lot of Moseses. We're in the presence today of giants whose shoulders we stand on, people who battled, not just on behalf of African Americans but on behalf of all of America; that battled for America's soul, that shed blood , that endured taunts and formant and in some cases gave -- torment and in some cases gave the full measure of their devotion. 所以我只想谈谈摩西、亚伦和约书亚，因为今天我们身处许多"摩西"之中。今天我们身处巨人之中，我们站在他们的肩膀上，这些人不仅为非裔美国人而战，也为整个美国而战；他们为美国的灵魂而战，流过血，忍受过嘲讽和折磨，有些人甚至献出了全部的忠诚。
Like Moses, they challenged Pharaoh, the princes, powers who said that some are atop and others are at the bottom, and that's how it's always going to be. 像摩西一样，他们挑战法老，挑战那些王子和权势，那些人说有些人高高在上，有些人低人一等，事情历来如此。
There were people like Anna Cooper and Marie Foster and Jimmy Lee Jackson and Maurice Olette, C.T. Vivian, Reverend Lowery, John Lewis, who said we can imagine something different and we know there is something out there for us, too. 有像安娜·库珀、玛丽·福斯特、吉米·李·杰克逊、莫里斯·奥莱特、C.T.维维安、洛厄里牧师、约翰·刘易斯这样的人，他们说我们可以想象不同的图景，我们知道也有属于我们的东西在那里。
Thank God, He's made us in His image and we reject the notion that we will for the rest of our lives be confined to a station of inferiority, that we can't aspire to the highest of heights, that our talents can't be expressed to their fullest. And so because of what they endured, because of what they marched; they led a people out of bondage. 感谢上帝，他按照自己的形象造了我们，我们拒绝这样的观念：我们余生都将被禁锢在低劣的地位上，我们不能追求最高的高度，我们的才华无法得到最充分的发挥。正因为他们所承受的一切，因为他们所进行的游行，他们带领一个民族走出了奴役。
They took them across the sea that folks thought could not be parted. They wandered through a desert but always knowing that God was with them and that, if they maintained that trust in God, that they would be all right. And it's because they marched that the next generation hasn't been bloodied so much. 他们带人们走过被认为无法分开的海洋。他们在沙漠中流浪，但始终知道上帝与他们同在，只要他们保持对上帝的信任，他们就会安然无恙。正因为他们游行，下一代人才没有流那么多血。
It's because they marched that we elected councilmen, congressmen. It is because they marched that we have Artur Davis and Keith Ellison. It is because they marched that I got the kind of education I got, a law degree, a seat in the Illinois senate and ultimately in the United States senate. 正因为他们游行，我们选出了市议员、国会议员。正因为他们游行，我们有了阿图尔·戴维斯和基思·埃利森。正因为他们游行，我才能接受我所受的那种教育，获得法律学位，进入伊利诺伊州参议院，最终进入美国参议院。
It is because they marched that I stand before you here today. I was mentioning at the Unity Breakfast this morning, my -- at the Unity Breakfast this morning that my debt is even greater than that because not only is my career the result of the work of the men and women who we honor here today. My very existence might not have been possible had it not been for some of the folks here today. 正因为他们游行，我今天才能站在你们面前。我今天早上在团结早餐会上提到，我——今天早上在团结早餐会上提到，我所欠的债甚至更大，因为不仅我的职业生涯是今天我们在这里致敬的男女努力的结果。如果不是今天在场的某些人，我的存在本身都可能无法实现。
I mentioned at the Unity Breakfast that a lot of people been asking, well, you know, your father was from Africa, your mother, she's a white woman from Kansas. I'm not sure that you have the same experience. 我在团结早餐会上提到，很多人一直在问，你知道，你父亲来自非洲，你母亲是堪萨斯的白人女性。我不确定你有同样的经历。
And I tried to explain, you don't understand. You see, my Grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya. Grew up in a small village and all his life, that's all he was -- a cook and a house boy. And that's what they called him, even when he was 60 years old. They called him a house boy. They wouldn't call him by his last name. 我试着解释，你不明白。你看，我祖父在肯尼亚给英国人当厨师。在一个小村庄长大，他一辈子就干这个——当厨师和当杂役。他们就这么叫他，甚至他60岁的时候还这么叫他。他们叫他"杂役男孩"。他们不肯叫他的姓。
Sound familiar? 听起来熟悉吗？
He had to carry a passbook around because Africans in their own land, in their own country, at that time, because it was a British colony, could not move about freely. They could only go where they were told to go. They could only work where they were told to work. 他不得不随身携带通行证，因为非洲人在自己的土地上、自己的国家里，那时因为是英国殖民地，不能自由行动。他们只能去被指定去的地方。他们只能在被指定的地方工作。
Yet something happened back here in Selma, Alabama. Something happened in Birmingham that sent out what Bobby Kennedy called, "Ripples of hope all around the world." Something happened when a bunch of women decided they were going to walk instead of ride the bus after a long day of doing somebody else's laundry, looking after somebody else's children. When men who had PhD's decided that's enough and we're going to stand up for our dignity. 然而，在阿拉巴马州的塞尔玛发生了一些事。在伯明翰发生了一些事，发出了鲍比·肯尼迪所说的"在世界各地荡漾的希望涟漪"。当一群女性决定在替别人洗了一天衣服、照看了一天别人家的孩子之后，步行而不乘公交车时，发生了一些事。当拥有博士学位的男性决定受够了、要为我们的尊严挺身而出时，发生了一些事。
That sent a shout across oceans so that my grandfather began to imagine something different for his son. His son, who grew up herding goats in a small village in Africa could suddenly set his sights a little higher and believe that maybe a black man in this world had a chance. 这声呐喊跨越了大洋，使我祖父开始为他的儿子想象不同的未来。他的儿子，在非洲一个小村庄里放羊长大，突然可以把目光放得更高，相信这个世界上的一个黑人也许有机会。
What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation. It worried folks in the White House who said, "You know, we're battling Communism. How are we going to win hearts and minds all across the world? If right here in our own country, John, we're not observing the ideals set fort in our Constitution, we might be accused of being hypocrites." 在阿拉巴马州塞尔玛和伯明翰发生的事也唤醒了这个国家的良知。它让白宫里的人担忧，他们说："你知道，我们在对抗共产主义。我们要如何赢得全世界的人心？如果在我们自己的国家，约翰，我们都不遵守宪法所阐述的理想，我们可能会被指责为伪善。"
So the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift. We're going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is. 于是肯尼迪家族决定搞一次空运。我们要去非洲，开始把年轻的非洲人带到这个国家，给他们奖学金来学习，这样他们就能了解美国是一个多么了不起的国家。
This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. 这个名叫巴拉克·奥巴马的年轻人拿到了其中一张机票，来到了这个国家。他遇到了一位女性，她的高曾曾曾祖父曾拥有奴隶；但她隐约觉得这其中有些荒唐，因为他们相视而视，他们决定，既然世界一直如此，我们也许不可能走到一起并生一个孩子。
There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama. 因为阿拉巴马州塞尔玛发生的事，因为有些人愿意走过一座桥，全国都在涌动着什么。于是他们走到了一起，小巴拉克·奥巴马出生了。所以别说我与阿拉巴马州塞尔玛没有渊源。别说我不是回到塞尔玛，阿拉巴马。
I'm here because somebody marched. I'm here because you all sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants. I thank the Moses generation; but we've got to remember, now, that Joshua still had a job to do. As great as Moses was, despite all that he did, leading a people out of bondage, he didn't cross over the river to see the Promised Land. 我在这里，是因为有人游行过。我在这里，是因为你们为我牺牲过。我站在巨人的肩膀上。我感谢摩西一代；但我们必须记住，约书亚仍然有工作要做。尽管摩西如此伟大，尽管他所做的一切——带领一个民族走出奴役——他却没有渡过河去看到应许之地。
God told him your job is done. You'll see it. You'll be at the mountain top and you can see what I've promised. What I've promised to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. You will see that I've fulfilled that promise but you won't go there. 上帝告诉他，你的工作完成了。你会看到它。你会站在山顶，你能看到我所应许的。我向亚伯拉罕、以撒和雅各所应许的。你会看到我兑现了那个承诺，但你不会去那里。
We're going to leave it to the Joshua generation to make sure it happens. There are still battles that need to be fought; some rivers that need to be crossed. Like Moses, the task was passed on to those who might not have been as deserving, might not have been as courageous, find themselves in front of the risks that their parents and grandparents and great grandparents had taken. 我们要把这件事交给约书亚一代来确保它实现。还有需要打的仗；还有需要渡过的河。像摩西一样，任务被交给了那些也许不那么配得、也许不那么勇敢的人，他们面对着他们的父母、祖父母和曾祖父母所承担的风险。
That doesn't mean that they don't still have a burden to shoulder, that they don't have some responsibilities. The previous generation, the Moses generation, pointed the way. They took us 90% of the way there. We still got that 10% in order to cross over to the other side. So the question, I guess, that I have today is what's called of us in this Joshua generation? What do we do in order to fulfill that legacy; to fulfill the obligations and the debt that we owe to those who allowed us to be here today? 这并不意味着他们仍然不必肩负重担，不意味着他们没有一些责任。上一代人，摩西一代，指明了道路。他们带我们走了90%的路。我们还有那10%要走，才能到达彼岸。所以我想，今天我的问题是，在这约书亚一代中，我们被要求做什么？我们该做什么来履行那份遗产；来履行我们对那些让我们今天能站在这里的人所欠的义务和债务？
Now, I don't think we could ever fully repay that debt. I think that we're always going to be looking back, but there are at least a few suggestions that I would have in terms of how we might fulfill that enormous legacy. The first is to recognize our history. John Lewis talked about why we're here today. 现在，我不认为我们能完全偿还那笔债。我认为我们将永远回望，但至少有几点建议，关于我们如何可能履行那份巨大的遗产。第一是认识我们的历史。约翰·刘易斯谈到了我们今天为什么在这里。
But I worry sometimes -- we've got black history month, we come down and march every year, once a year. We occasionally celebrate the various events of the Civil Rights Movement, we celebrate Dr. King's birthday, but it strikes me that understanding our history and knowing what it means, is an everyday activity. 但我有时担心——我们有了黑人历史月，我们每年下来游行一次。我们偶尔庆祝民权运动的各种事件，我们庆祝金博士的生日，但让我感触的是，理解我们的历史、明白它的意义，是一项每天都要做的事。
Moses told the Joshua generation; don't forget where you came from. I worry sometimes, that the Joshua generation in its success forgets where it came from. Thinks it doesn't have to make as many sacrifices. Thinks that the very height of ambition is to make as much money as you can, to drive the biggest car and have the biggest house and wear a Rolex watch and get your own private jet, get some of that Oprah money. 摩西告诉约书亚一代；不要忘记你从哪里来。我有时担心，约书亚一代在成功之中忘记了它从哪里来。以为不必做出那么多牺牲。以为抱负的最高境界就是尽可能多赚钱，开最大的车，住最大的房子，戴劳力士表，拥有自己的私人飞机，挣些奥普拉那样的钱。
And I think that's a good thing. There's nothing wrong with making money, but if you know your history, then you know that there is a certain poverty of ambition involved in simply striving just for money. Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence. You have to fill that with something else. You have to fill it with the golden rule. You've got to fill it with thinking about others. And if we know our history, then we will understand that that is the highest mark of service. 我认为这是好事。赚钱没有什么错，但如果你了解你的历史，你就会知道，仅仅为了钱而奋斗包含着一种抱负上的贫困。单凭物质主义无法实现你存在的种种可能。你必须用别的东西来填补。你必须用黄金法则来填补。你必须用关心他人来填补。如果我们了解我们的历史，我们就会理解，那才是服务的最高境界。
Second thing that the Joshua generation needs to understand is that the principles of equality that were set fort and were battled for have to be fought each and every day. It is not a one-time thing. 约书亚一代需要理解的第二件事是，那些曾被确立、曾为之奋斗的平等原则，必须每一天都去捍卫。它不是一劳永逸的事。
I was remarking at the unity breakfast on the fact that the single most significant concern that this justice department under this administration has had with respect to discrimination has to do with affirmative action. That they have basically spent all their time worrying about colleges and universities around the country that are given a little break to young African Americans and Hispanics to make sure that they can go to college, too. 我在团结早餐会上提到，本届政府下的司法部在歧视问题上最重大的关切，是关于平权法案。他们基本上把所有时间都花在担心全国各地的大学和学院给年轻非裔美国人和拉美裔一点照顾，确保他们也能上大学。
I had a school in southern Illinois that set up a program for PhD's in math and science for African Americans. And the reason they had set it up is because we only had less than 1% of the PhD's in science and math go to African Americans. At a time when we are competing in a global economy, when we're not competing just against folks in North Carolina or Florida or California, we're competing against folks in China and India and we need math and science majors, this university thought this might be a nice thing to do. 我在伊利诺伊州南部有一所学校，为非裔美国人设立了数学和科学博士项目。他们设立这个项目的原因是，我们在数学和科学方面的博士学位只有不到1%给了非裔美国人。在我们参与全球经济竞争的时代，当我们不仅是在和北卡罗来纳、佛罗里达或加利福尼亚的人竞争，而是在和中国、印度的人竞争，我们需要数学和科学专业人才的时候，这所大学觉得这是件好事。
And the justice department wrote them a letter saying we are going to threaten to sue you for reverse discrimination unless you cease this program. 而司法部给他们写信说，我们要威胁起诉你们搞反向歧视，除非你们停止这个项目。
And it reminds us that we still got a lot of work to do, and that the basic enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, the injustice that still exists within our criminal justice system, the disparity in terms of how people are treated in this country continues. It has gotten better. And we should never deny that it's gotten better. 这提醒我们，我们还有很多工作要做，反歧视法律的基本执行、我们的刑事司法系统中仍然存在的不公、这个国家人们在待遇上的差异仍在继续。情况已经好转。我们永远不应否认它已经好转。
But we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough. That until we have absolute equality in this country in terms of people being treated on the basis of their color or their gender, that that is something that we've got to continue to work on and the Joshua generation has a significant task in making that happen. 但我们不应忘记，更好并不等于够好。在这个国家，直到人们在绝对平等的基础上、不因肤色或性别而受到区别对待之前，那都是我们需要继续努力的事，约书亚一代在推动这件事上负有重大使命。
Third thing -- we've got to recognize that we fought for civil rights, but we've still got a lot of economic rights that have to be dealt with. We've got 46 million people uninsured in this country despite spending more money on health care than any nation on earth. It makes no sense. As a consequence, we've got what's known as a health care disparity in this nation because many of the uninsured are African American or Latino. Life expectancy is lower. Almost every disease is higher within minority communities. The health care gap. 第三件事——我们必须认识到，我们为民权而战，但我们仍有很多经济权利需要处理。这个国家有4600万人没有医疗保险，尽管我们在医疗上的花费超过地球上任何国家。这毫无道理。其结果是，我们国家出现了所谓的医疗差距，因为许多未投保的人是非裔美国人或拉美裔。预期寿命更低。几乎每一种疾病在少数族裔社区中都更高。医疗差距。
Blacks are less likely in their schools to have adequate funding. We have less-qualified teachers in those schools. We have fewer textbooks in those schools. We got in some schools rats outnumbering computers. That's called the achievement gap. You've got a health care gap and you've got an achievement gap. You've got Katrina still undone. I went down to New Orleans three weeks ago. It still looks bombed out. Still not rebuilt. 黑人在学校里获得充足资金的可能性更低。那些学校里资格较弱的教师更多。那些学校里的教科书更少。有些学校里老鼠比电脑还多。这叫做成就差距。你们有医疗差距，又有成就差距。卡特里娜飓风的灾后工作仍未完成。我三周前去了一趟新奥尔良。那里看起来仍像被炸过一样。仍未重建。
When 9/11 happened, the federal government had a special program of grants to help rebuild. They waived any requirement that Manhattan would have to pay 10% of the cost of rebuilding. When Hurricane Andrew happened in Florida, 10% requirement, they waived it because they understood that some disasters are so devastating that we can't expect a community to rebuild. New Orleans -- the largest national catastrophe in our history, the federal government says where's your 10%? 9·11发生时，联邦政府有一个特别拨款项目来帮助重建。他们免除了曼哈顿必须支付10%重建成本的要求。当安德鲁飓风袭击佛罗里达时，10%的要求，他们也免除了，因为他们理解，有些灾难如此毁灭性，我们不能指望一个社区自行重建。新奥尔良——我们历史上最大的全国性灾难，联邦政府却说，你的10%呢？
There is an empathy gap. There is a gap in terms of sympathizing for the folks in New Orleans. It's not a gap that the American people felt because we saw how they responded. But somehow our government didn't respond with that same sense of compassion, with that same sense of kindness. 存在一种共情差距。在对新奥尔良人民的同情上存在差距。这并不是美国人民感受到的差距，因为我们看到了他们的回应。但不知为何，我们的政府没有以同样的同情心、同样的善意来回应。
And here is the worst part, the tragedy in New Orleans happened well before the hurricane struck because many of those communities, there were so many young men in prison, so many kids dropping out, so little hope. 而最糟糕的是，新奥尔良的悲剧在飓风来袭之前很久就已经发生了，因为在那些社区中，有那么多年轻人身陷囹圄，那么多孩子辍学，那么少希望。
A hope gap. A hope gap that still pervades too many communities all across the country and right here in Alabama. So the question is, then, what are we, the Joshua generation, doing to close those gaps? Are we doing every single thing that we can do in Congress in order to make sure that early education is adequately funded and making sure that we are raising the minimum wage so people can have dignity and respect? 一种希望差距。一种仍然弥漫在全国太多社区、就在这里阿拉巴马州的希望差距。那么问题就是，我们约书亚一代在做什么来弥合这些差距？我们是否在做国会里能做的每一件事，以确保早期教育获得充足资金，确保我们提高最低工资，让人们能有尊严和尊重？
Are we ensuring that, if somebody loses a job, that they're getting retrained? And that, if they've lost their health care and pension, somebody is there to help them get back on their feet? Are we making sure we're giving a second chance to those who have strayed and gone to prison but want to start a new life? Government alone can't solve all those problems, but government can help. 我们是否在确保，如果有人失业，他们能得到再培训？如果他们失去了医疗保险和养老金，有人帮助他们重新站起来？我们是否在确保给那些误入歧途、入过狱但想重新开始的人第二次机会？光靠政府无法解决所有这些问题，但政府可以帮忙。
It's the responsibility of the Joshua generation to make sure that we have a government that is as responsive as the need that exists all across America. That brings me to one other point, about the Joshua generation, and that is this -- that it's not enough just to ask what the government can do for us-- it's important for us to ask what we can do for ourselves. 约书亚一代有责任确保我们拥有一个与美国各地存在的需求同样敏锐回应的政府。这让我想到关于约书亚一代的另一点，那就是——仅仅问政府能为我们做什么是不够的——重要的是我们也要问，我们能为自己做什么。
One of the signature aspects of the civil rights movement was the degree of discipline and fortitude that was instilled in all the people who participated. Imagine young people, 16, 17, 20, 21, backs straight, eyes clear, suit and tie, sitting down at a lunch counter knowing somebody is going to spill milk on you but you have the discipline to understand that you are not going to retaliate because in showing the world how disciplined we were as a people, we were able to win over the conscience of the nation. 民权运动的一个标志性特征，是灌输给所有参与者的那种纪律和坚毅。想象一下那些年轻人，16岁、17岁、20岁、21岁，背挺得笔直，目光清澈，西装领带，坐在午餐柜台前，明知道有人会把牛奶泼在你身上，但你却有那样的纪律，懂得你不会还手，因为通过向世界展示我们作为一个民族是多么有纪律，我们赢得了这个国家的良知。
I can't say for certain that we have instilled that same sense of moral clarity and purpose in this generation. Bishop, sometimes I feel like we've lost it a little bit. 我不能肯定地说，我们已经在这一代人中灌输了同样的道德清明感和目标感。主教，有时我觉得我们失去了一些。
I'm fighting to make sure that our schools are adequately funded all across the country. With the inequities of relying on property taxes and people who are born in wealthy districts getting better schools than folks born in poor districts and that's now how it's supposed to be. That's not the American way. 我在为确保全国各地的学校获得充足资金而奋斗。依赖房产税、出生在富裕学区的人比出生在贫困学区的人得到更好的学校，这种不公本不该如此。那不是美国的方式。
But I'll tell you what -- even as I fight on behalf of more education funding, more equity, I have to also say that , if parents don't turn off the television set when the child comes home from school and make sure they sit down and do their homework and go talk to the teachers and find out how they're doing, and if we don't start instilling a sense in our young children that there is nothing to be ashamed about in educational achievement, I don't know who taught them that reading and writing and conjugating your verbs was something white. 但我要告诉你们——即便我为更多的教育资金、更多的公平而战，我也不得不说，如果父母不在孩子放学回家时关掉电视，确保他们坐下来做作业，去和老师沟通了解他们的学习情况；如果我们不在年幼的孩子心中树立一种观念——学业成就并不可耻，我不知道是谁教会他们阅读、写作和动词变位是"白人"的事。
We've got to get over that mentality. That is part of what the Moses generation teaches us, not saying to ourselves we can't do something, but telling ourselves that we can achieve. We can do that. We got power in our hands. Folks are complaining about the quality of our government, I understand there's something to be complaining about. I'm in Washington. I see what's going on. I see those powers and principalities have snuck back in there, that they're writing the energy bills and the drug laws. 我们必须摆脱那种心态。那是摩西一代教给我们的部分内容——不要对自己说我们做不到，而是告诉自己我们能够实现。我们能做到。我们手中掌握着力量。人们在抱怨我们政府的质量，我理解确实有值得抱怨之处。我在华盛顿。我看到发生了什么。我看到那些权力和权势又悄悄溜了回去，他们在起草能源法案和药品法案。
We understand that, but I'll tell you what. I also know that, if cousin Pookie would vote, get off the couch and register some folks and go to the polls, we might have a different kind of politics. That's what the Moses generation teaches us. Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Go do some politics. Change this country! That's what we need. 我们明白这一点，但我要告诉你们。我也知道，如果表哥普基愿意投票，从沙发上起来，登记一些人，去投票站，我们也许会有一种不同的政治。那是摩西一代教给我们的。脱下你的卧室拖鞋。穿上你的游行鞋。去做些政治。改变这个国家！那正是我们需要的。
We have too many children in poverty in this country and everybody should be ashamed, but don't tell me it doesn't have a little to do with the fact that we got too many daddies not acting like daddies. Don't think that fatherhood ends at conception. I know something about that because my father wasn't around when I was young and I struggled. 我们有太多孩子在这个国家身处贫困，每个人都应感到羞愧，但别告诉我这与一个事实无关——我们有太多父亲不尽父亲之责。别以为父亲的责任在受孕那一刻就结束了。我对此有所了解，因为我年轻时父亲不在身边，我挣扎过。
Those of you who read my book know. I went through some difficult times. I know what it means when you don't have a strong male figure in the house, which is why the hardest thing about me being in politics sometimes is not being home as much as I'd like and I'm just blessed that I've got such a wonderful wife at home to hold things together. 读过我的书的人都知道。我经历过一些艰难时光。我知道家里没有一个坚强的男性榜样意味着什么，这也是为什么从政对我来说有时最难的事是不能如愿经常在家，我只是庆幸家里有这样一位出色的妻子把一切撑起来。
Don't tell me that we can't do better by our children, that we can't take more responsibility for making sure we're instilling in them the values and the ideals that the Moses generation taught us about sacrifice and dignity and honesty and hard work and discipline and self-sacrifice. That comes from us. We've got to transmit that to the next generation and I guess the point that I'm making is that the civil rights movement wasn't just a fight against the oppressor; it was also a fight against the oppressor in each of us. 别告诉我我们不能为孩子做得更好，不能承担更多责任，确保把摩西一代教给我们的关于牺牲、尊严、诚实、勤奋、自律和自我牺牲的价值观和理想灌输给他们。那来自我们。我们必须把它传递给下一代，而我想说的要点是，民权运动不仅是一场对抗压迫者的斗争；它也是一场对抗我们每个人心中压迫者的斗争。
Sometimes it's easy to just point at somebody else and say it's their fault, but oppression has a way of creeping into it. Reverend, it has a way of stunting yourself. You start telling yourself, Bishop, I can't do something. I can't read. I can't go to college. I can't start a business. I can't run for Congress. I can't run for the presidency. 有时很容易就指着别人说是他们的错，但压迫有一种渗透的方式。牧师，它有一种阻碍你自身的方式。你开始告诉自己，主教，我做不到某件事。我不会读书。我上不了大学。我创不了业。我竞选不了国会议员。我竞选不了总统。
People start telling you-- you can't do something, after a while, you start believing it and part of what the civil rights movement was about was recognizing that we have to transform ourselves in order to transform the world. Mahatma Gandhi, great hero of Dr. King and the person who helped create the nonviolent movement around the world; he once said that you can't change the world if you haven't changed. 人们开始告诉你——你做不到某件事，久而久之，你开始相信它，而民权运动的一部分意义在于认识到，我们必须改变自己才能改变世界。圣雄甘地，金博士的伟大英雄，也是帮助在世界各地创建非暴力运动的人；他曾经说过，如果你没有改变自己，你就无法改变世界。
If you want to change the world, the change has to happen with you first and that is something that the greatest and most honorable of generations has taught us, but the final thing that I think the Moses generation teaches us is to remind ourselves that we do what we do because God is with us. 如果你想改变世界，改变必须首先从你开始，这是最伟大、最可敬的一代教给我们的，但我认为摩西一代教给我们的最后一件事，是提醒自己，我们做我们所做的事，是因为上帝与我们同在。
You know, when Moses was first called to lead people out of the Promised Land, he said I don't think I can do it, Lord. I don't speak like Reverend Lowery. I don't feel brave and courageous and the Lord said I will be with you. Throw down that rod. Pick it back up. I'll show you what to do. The same thing happened with the Joshua generation. 你知道，当摩西最初被召唤去带领人们走出应许之地时，他说，主啊，我觉得我做不到。我不像洛厄里牧师那样会讲话。我不觉得勇敢和有勇气，主说，我必与你同在。扔下那根杖。再捡起来。我会指示你当做什么。约书亚一代也发生了同样的事。
Joshua said, you know, I'm scared. I'm not sure that I am up to the challenge, the Lord said to him, every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given you. Be strong and have courage, for I am with you wherever you go. Be strong and have courage. It's a prayer for a journey. 约书亚说，你知道，我害怕。我不确定自己能胜任这个挑战，主对他说，你脚掌所踏的每一处地方，我都赐给你了。你当刚强壮胆，因为我无论你往哪里去都与你同在。你当刚强壮胆。那是一段旅程的祷告。
A prayer that kept a woman in her seat when the bus driver told her to get up, a prayer that led nine children through the doors of the little rock school, a prayer that carried our brothers and sisters over a bridge right here in Selma, Alabama. Be strong and have courage. 一个让一位女性在公交司机叫她让座时仍坐在座位上的祷告，一个引领九个孩子走进小石城学校大门的祷告，一个带领我们的兄弟姐妹走过阿拉巴马州塞尔玛一座桥的祷告。你当刚强壮胆。
When you see row and row of state trooper facing you, the horses and the tear gas, how else can you walk? Towards them, unarmed, unafraid. When they come start beating your friends and neighbors, how else can you simply kneel down, bow your head and ask the Lord for salvation? When you see heads gashed open and eyes burning and children lying hurt on the side of the road, when you are John Lewis and you've been beaten within an inch of your life on Sunday, how do you wake up Monday and keep on marching? 当你看到一排又一排州警面对你，马匹和催泪瓦斯，你还能怎样行走？朝他们走去，手无寸铁，无所畏惧。当他们开始殴打你的朋友和邻居时，你还能怎样跪下、低头、求主拯救？当你看到头被打破、眼睛灼痛、孩子倒在路边受伤，当你是约翰·刘易斯、星期天被打得只剩一口气，你如何在星期一醒来继续游行？
Be strong and have courage, for I am with you wherever you go. We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to travel. We traveled because God was with us. It's not how far we've come. 你当刚强壮胆，因为我无论你往哪里去都与你同在。我们在这段旅程中已走了很远，但仍有一段长路要走。我们前行，是因为上帝与我们同在。这不在于我们走了多远。
That bridge outside was crossed by blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, teenagers and children, the beloved community of God's children, they wanted to take those steps together, but it was left to the Joshua's to finish the journey Moses had begun and today we're called to be the Joshua's of our time, to be the generation that finds our way across this river. 外面那座桥是由黑人和白人、北方人和南方人、青少年和孩子共同走过的，是上帝心爱的子民组成的亲爱的共同体，他们想一起迈出那些步伐，但完成摩西所开始的旅程，落到了约书亚一代身上，而今天我们被召唤成为我们这个时代的约书亚，成为找到跨越这条河之路的那一代人。
There will be days when the water seems wide and the journey too far, but in those moments, we must remember that throughout our history, there has been a running thread of ideals that have guided our travels and pushed us forward, even when they're just beyond our reach, liberty in the face of tyranny, opportunity where there was none and hope over the most crushing despair. 会有这样的日子，水看起来很宽，旅程似乎太远，但在那些时刻，我们必须记住，在我们的整个历史中，一直有一条理想的主线指引着我们的旅途，推动我们前进，即使它们刚刚超出我们的触及范围——面对暴政的自由，原本不存在的机遇，以及压倒最沉重绝望的希望。
Those ideals and values beckon us still and when we have our doubts and our fears, just like Joshua did, when the road looks too long and it seems like we may lose our way, remember what these people did on that bridge. 那些理想和价值观仍在召唤我们，当我们有疑虑和恐惧时，就像约书亚一样，当路看起来太长、似乎我们会迷失方向时，记住这些人在那座桥上所做的事。
Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey, the prayer that God gave to Joshua. Be strong and have courage in the face of injustice. Be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice and hatred, in the face of joblessness and helplessness and hopelessness. 把那段旅程的祷告放在心里，那是上帝给约书亚的祷告。面对不公，你当刚强壮胆。面对偏见和仇恨、面对失业和无助与绝望，你当刚强壮胆。
Be strong and have courage, brothers and sisters, those who are gathered here today, in the face of our doubts and fears, in the face of skepticism, in the face of cynicism, in the face of a mighty river. 今天聚集在这里的兄弟姐妹们，面对我们的疑虑和恐惧，面对怀疑，面对愤世嫉俗，面对一条浩荡的大河，你当刚强壮胆。
Be strong and have courage and let us cross over that Promised Land together. Thank you so much everybody. 你当刚强壮胆，让我们一起渡过那片应许之地。非常感谢大家。
God bless you. 上帝祝福你们。