【正文】 ell as reality.
　　Next week I shall ask the Congress of the United States to act, to make a mitment it has not fully made in this century to the proposition that race has no place in American life or law. The Federal judiciary has upheld that proposition in a series of forthright cases. The Executive Branch has adopted that proposition in the conduct of its affairs, including the employment of Federal personnel, the use of Federal facilities, and the sale of federally financed housing. But there are other necessary measures which only the Congress can provide, and they must be provided at this session. The old code of equity law under which we live mands for every wrong a remedy, but in too many munities, in too many parts of the country, wrongs are inflicted on Negro citizens and there are no remedies at law. Unless the Congress acts, their only remedy is the street.
　　I am, therefore, asking the Congress to enact legislation giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments. This seems to me to be an elementary right. Its denial is an arbitrary indignity that no American in 1963 should have to endure, but many do.
　　I have recently met with scores of business leaders urging them to take voluntary action to end this discrimination, and I have been encouraged by their response, and in the last two weeks over 75 cities have seen progress made in desegregating these kinds of facilities. But many are unwilling to act alone, and for this reason, nationwide legislation is needed if we are to move this problem from the streets to the courts.
　　Iamp。39。m also asking the Congress to authorize the Federal Government to participate more fully in lawsuits designed to end segregation in public education. We have succeeded in persuading many districts to desegregate voluntarily. Dozens have admitted Negroes without violence. Today, a Negro is attending a Statesupported institution in every one of our 50 States, but the pace is very slow.
　　Too many Negro children entering segregated grade schools at the time of the Supreme Courtamp。39。s decision nine years ago will enter segregated high schools this fall, having suffered a loss which can never be restored. The lack of an adequate education denies the Negro a chance to get a decent job.
　　The orderly implementation of the Supreme Court decision, therefore, cannot be left solely to those who may not have the economic resources to carry the legal action or who may be subject to harassment.
　　Other features will be also requested, including greater protection for the right to vote. But legislation, I repeat, cannot solve this problem alone. It must be solved in the homes of every American in every munity across our country. In this respect I wanna pay tribute to those citizens North and South whoamp。39。ve been working in their munities to make life better for all. They are acting not out of sense of legal duty but out of a sense of human decency. Like our soldiers and sailors in all parts of the world they are meeting freedomamp。39。s challenge on the firing line, and I salute them for their honor and their courage.
　　My fellow Americans, this is a problem which faces us all in every city of the North as well as the South. Today, there are Negroes unemployed, two or three times as many pared to whites, inadequate education, moving into the large cities, unable to find work, young people particularly out of work without hope, denied equal rights, denied the opportunity to eat at a restaurant or a lunch counter or go to a movie theater, denied the right to a decent education, denied almost today the right to attend a State university even though qualified. It seems to me that these are matters which concern us all, not merely Presidents or Congressmen or Governors, but every citizen of the United States.
　　This is one country. It has bee one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents. We cannot say to ten percent of the population that you canamp。39。t have that right。 that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have。 that the only way that they are going to get their rights is to go in the street and demonstrate. I think we owe them and we owe ourselves a better country than that.
　　Therefore, Iamp。39。m asking for your help in making it easier for us to move ahead and to provide the kind of equality of treatment which we would want ourselves。 to give a chance for every child to be educated to the limit of his talents.
　　As Iamp。39。ve said before, not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.
　　We have a right to expect that the Negro munity will be responsible, will uphold the law, but they have a right to expect that the law will be fair, that the Constitution will be color blind, as Justice Harlan said at the turn of the century.
　　This is what weamp。39。re talking about and this is a matter which concerns this country and what it stands for, and in meeting it I ask the support of all our citizens.
　　Thank you very much.
英語經(jīng)典演講二：A Whisper of AIDS　　Less than three months ago at platform hearings in Salt Lake City, I asked the Republican Party to lift the shroud of silence which has been draped over the issue of HIV and AIDS. I have e tonight to bring our silence to an end. I bear a message of challenge, not selfcongratulation. I want your attention, not your applause.
　　I would never have asked to be HIV positive, but I believe that in all things there is a purpose。 and I stand before you and before the nation gladly. The reality of AIDS is brutally clear. Two hundred thousand Americans are dead or dying. A million more are infected. Worldwide, forty million, sixty million, or a hundred million infecti