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I Have a Dream
I say to you today, my friends, so even though, we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live up to the true meaning of its creed1: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaver-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood2.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice3, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis4 of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its governor, having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted5, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked6 places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew7 out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords8 of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning.
My country, 'tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty,Of thee I sing,Land where my fathers died,Land of the pilgrims' pride,From every mountainsideLet freedom ring.
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious9 hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty10 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 Lookout11 Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi!
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
When we let 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 almighty12, we are free at last!”
1 creed | |
n.信条;信念,纲领 | |
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2 brotherhood | |
n.兄弟般的关系,手中情谊 | |
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3 injustice | |
n.非正义,不公正,不公平,侵犯(别人的)权利 | |
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4 oasis | |
n.(沙漠中的)绿洲,宜人的地方 | |
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5 exalted | |
adj.(地位等)高的,崇高的;尊贵的,高尚的 | |
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6 crooked | |
adj.弯曲的;不诚实的,狡猾的,不正当的 | |
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7 hew | |
v.砍;伐;削 | |
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8 discords | |
不和(discord的复数形式) | |
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9 prodigious | |
adj.惊人的,奇妙的;异常的;巨大的;庞大的 | |
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10 mighty | |
adj.强有力的;巨大的 | |
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11 lookout | |
n.注意,前途,瞭望台 | |
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12 almighty | |
adj.全能的,万能的;很大的,很强的 | |
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