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 f...
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...
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...
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. 100年后,黑人依然在美国社会中间向隅而...
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. 今天,我高兴地同大家一起,参加这次示威集会,这将成为历史上最伟大的为了争取自...
What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not s...
America, at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected. 正处于鼎盛期的美国珍视并期待每个人担负起自己的责任。 Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscienc...
And whatever our views of its cause, we can agree that children at risk are not at fault. Abandonment and abuse are not acts of God, they are failures of love. 无论我们对导致这种贫穷的原因持何种观点,我们都认为,孩子敢于冒...
Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives. 我们要共同努力,改革美国的教育体制,不能让无知和冷漠吞噬更多年轻的生命。 We will reform Social Security and Medicare,...
Some seem to believe that our politics can afford to be petty because, in a time of peace, the stakes of our debates appear small. 一些人似乎认为我们的政治制度微不足道,因为在和平时期,我们所争论的话题都是无关紧要...