【正文】 magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall 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 of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has e back marked “insufficient funds.” 從某種意義上說，我們來到國家的首都是為了兌現(xiàn)一張支票。我們共和國的締造者在擬寫憲法和獨立宣言的輝煌篇章時，就簽署了一張每一個美國人都能繼承的期票。這張期票向所有人承諾——不論白人還是黑人——都享有不可讓渡的生存權(quán)、自由權(quán)和追求幸福權(quán)。然而，今天美國顯然對她的有色公民拖欠著這張期票。美國沒有承兌這筆神圣的債務(wù)，而是開始給黑人一張空頭支票——一張蓋著“資金不足”的印戳被退回的支票。But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this so, we39。ve e to cash this check, a 3 check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of ，我們決不相信正義的銀行會破產(chǎn)。我們決不相信這個國家巨大的機會寶庫會資金不足。因此，我們來兌現(xiàn)這張支票。這張支票將給我們以寶貴的自由和正義的保障。We have also e to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of is the time to make real the promises of is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of is the time to make justice a reality for all of God39。s ：現(xiàn)在正是萬分緊急的時刻?，F(xiàn)在不是從容不迫悠然行事或服用漸進主義鎮(zhèn)靜劑的時候?，F(xiàn)在是實現(xiàn)民主諾言的時候?，F(xiàn)在是走出幽暗荒涼的種族隔離深谷，踏上種族平等的陽關(guān)大道的時候。現(xiàn)在是使我們國家走出種族不平等的流沙，踏上充滿手足之情的磐石的時候。現(xiàn)在是使上帝所有孩子真正享有公正的時候。It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the sweltering summer of the Negro39。s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and sixtythree is not an end, but a 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 there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship ，對于國家將會是致命的。自由平等的朗朗秋日不到來，黑人順情合理哀怨的酷暑就不會過去。1963年不是一個結(jié)束，而是一個開端。如果國家依然我行我素，那些希望黑人只需出出氣就會心滿意足的人將大失所望。在黑人得到公民權(quán)之前，美國既不會安寧，也不會平靜。The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice ，直至光輝燦爛的正義之日來臨。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 4 us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul ，對于站在通向正義之宮艱險門檻上的人們，有一些話我必須要說。在我們爭取合法地位的過程中，切不要錯誤行事導(dǎo)致犯罪。我們切不要吞飲仇恨辛酸的苦酒，來解除對于自由的飲渴。我們應(yīng)該永遠得體地、紀(jì)律嚴明地進行斗爭。我們不能容許我們富有創(chuàng)造性的抗議淪為暴力行動。我們應(yīng)該不斷升華到用靈魂力量對付肉體力量的崇高境界。The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro munity 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 e to realize that their destiny is tied up with our they have e to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our ，不應(yīng)導(dǎo)致我們對所有白人的不信任——因為許多白人兄弟已經(jīng)認識到：他們的命運同我們的命運緊密相連，他們的自由同我們的自由休戚相關(guān)。他們今天來到這里參加集會就是明證。We cannot walk 。And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ，我們必須保證勇往直前。We cannot turn 。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 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 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 , no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” 5第三篇：馬丁路德金演講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 score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their one hundred years later, the Negro still is not hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own so we39。ve e here today to dramatize a shameful a sense we39。ve e to our nation39。s capital to cash a 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 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 of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has e back marked “insufficient funds.”But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this so, we39。ve e to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of have also e to this hallowed spot