Martin Luther King，Jr.，an American pastor，activist，humanitarian
Lincoln Memorial，August 28th，1963
And when this happens，when we allow freedom ring，when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet，from every state and every city.
当我们让自由之声轰响，当我们让自由之声响彻每一个村庄，每一个州府城镇，我们就能加速这一天的到来。
Martin Luther King，Jr
背景故事
《我有一个梦想》是美国黑人民权运动领袖马丁·路德·金于1963年8月28日在华盛顿林肯纪念堂发表的演讲，这也许可以称得上是公共演说史上最经典的演讲。内容主要关于黑人民族平等。对美国甚至世界影响很大。
名人简介
马丁·路德·金，是美国黑人民权运动领袖，浸礼会教堂牧师，非暴力主义者。1929年1月15日出生于佐治亚州亚特兰大市一黑人家庭，他积极参加和领导美国黑人争取平等权利的斗争，一生三次被捕，三次被判刑。
1968年4月4日黄昏，马丁·路德·金在洛兰宾馆306房间阳台散心时遇刺身亡，终年39岁。金的遇刺触发了黑人抗暴斗争的巨大风暴。4月4日到6日，全美一百多个城市爆发骚乱。美国政府确定从1986年起每年一月的第三个星期一（金的诞辰为1月15日）为全国纪念日。从1987年起马丁·路德·金的诞辰亦为联合国的纪念日之一。
演讲赏析
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King，Jr.，an American pastor，
activist，humanitarian
Lincoln Memorial，August 28th，1963
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.
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.
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.
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“.
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.
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 quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God‘s children.
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.
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.
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.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk，we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
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 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“.