【正文】 for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new country, ’ tis of thee，Sweet land of liberty，Of thee I sing:Land where my fathers died，Land of the pilgrims’ pride，F(xiàn)rom every freedom if America is to be a great nation this must bee let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York!Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!But not only that。let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi!From every mountainside, let freedom ring!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, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last!free at last!thank God almighty, we are free at last!”第二篇：奧巴馬馬丁路德金雕像落成致辭THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.(Applause.)Thank you.(Applause.)Please be earthquake and a hurricane may have delayed this day, but this is a day that would not be this day, we celebrate Luther King, Jr.39。s return to the National this place, he will stand for all time, among monuments to those who fathered this nation and those who defended it。a black preacher with no official rank or title who somehow gave voice to our deepest dreams and our most lasting ideals, a man who stirred our conscience and thereby helped make our union more would be the first to remind us that this memorial is not for him movement of which he was a part depended on an entire generation of are here today, and for their service and their sacrifice, we owe them our everlasting is a monument to your collective achievement.(Applause.)Some giants of the civil rights movement –like Rosa Parks and Dorothy Height, Benjamin Hooks, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth –they39。ve been taken from us these past few monument attests to their strength and their courage, and while we miss them dearly, we know they rest in a better finally, there are the multitudes of men and women whose names never appear in the history books –those who marched and those who sang, those who sat in and those who stood firm, those who organized and those who mobilized –all those men and women who through countless acts of quiet heroism helped bring about changes few thought were even possible.“By the thousands,” said , “faceless, anonymous, relentless young people, black and white…h(huán)ave taken our whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.” To those men andwomen, to those foot soldiers for justice, know that this monument is yours, as half a century has passed since that historic March on Washington, a day when thousands upon thousands gathered for jobs and for is what our schoolchildren remember best when they think of – hisbooming voice across this Mall, calling on America to make freedom a reality for all of God39。s children, prophesizing of a day when the jangling discord of our nation would be transformed into a beautiful symphony of is right that we honor that march, that we lift up 39。s “I Have a Dream” speech –for without that shining moment, without 39。s glorious words,we might not have had the courage to e as far as we of that hopeful vision, because of 39。s moral imagination, barricades began to fall and bigotry began to doors of opportunity swung open for an entire , laws changed, but hearts and minds changed, as at the faces here around you, and you see an America that is more fair and more free and more just than the one addressed that are right to savor that slow but certain progress– progress that39。s expressed itself in a million ways, large and small, across this nation every single day, as people of all colors and creeds live together, and work together, and fight alongside one another, and learn together, and build together, and love one it is right for us to celebrate today 39。s dream and his vision of yet it is also important on this day to remind ourselves that such progress did not e easily。that 39。s faith was hardwon。that it sprung out of a harsh reality and some bitter is right for us to celebrate 39。s marvelous oratory, but it is worthremembering that progress did not e from words was was purchased through enduring the smack of billy clubs and the blast of fire was bought with days in jail cells and nights of bomb every victory during the height of the civil rights movement, there were setbacks and there were forget now, but during his life, wasn39。t always considered a unifying after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and anagitator, a munist and a was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow。by those who felt he shouldn39。t meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union know from his own testimony the doubts and the pain this caused him, and that the controversy that would swirl around his actions would last until the fateful day he raise all this because nearly 50 years after the March on Washington, our work, 39。s work, is not yet gather here at a moment of great challenge and great the first decade of this new century, we have been tested by war and by tragedy。by an economic crisis and its aftermath that has left millions out of work, and poverty on the rise, and millions more just struggling to get , even before this crisis struck, we had endu