整份宣言分成两个部分发布：第一部分发布于1862年9月22日，是份概述第二部分目的的准备公告；第二部分正式生效于1863年1月1日，此时正处于南北战争的第二年，其中包含亚伯拉罕·林肯的声明：所有脱离联邦并回到联邦掌控下的州之奴隶最迟于1863年1月1日后当被解放。有十个州的名字在第二部分公布时被逐一提及，可有意忽略了马里兰州、德拉瓦州（特拉华州）（当时皆未脱离联邦）、田纳西州（已确实在联邦控制之下）、密苏里州以及肯塔基州（已存有几个被联邦接受的派系政府，但仍未正式脱离联邦）。特别豁免权由48个连署成立西维吉尼亚州以及其他被举列的维吉尼亚州郡表述；另外还包含纽奥良和几个被列举为联邦掌控之下的路易斯安那州郡。
Text of the Emancipation Proclamation (second part)
A Proclamation.
Whereas, on the 22d day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:
1862年9月22日，合众国总统曾发出一道宣言，其内容如下：
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
“1863年元月1日起，凡在当地人民尚在反抗合众国的任何一州之内，或一州的指明地区之内，为人占有而做奴隶的人们都应在那时及以后永远获得自由；合众国政府行政部门，包括海陆军当局，将承认并保障这些人的自由，当他们或他们之中的任何人为自己的自由而作任何努力时，不作任何压制他们的行为。
That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States.
政府的行政部门将于上述的元月1日，以公告宣布那些州或那些州的那些地区的人民当时尚在反抗合众国，如果有的话；在那一天任何一州或其人民以大多数合法选举人参加选举出来的代表参加合众国国会，同时没有强有力的反证时，这种事实就是该州及其人民没有反抗合众国的确实证据”。
Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:
所以现在我，合众国总统亚伯拉罕·林肯，以在反抗合众国政府当局的武装叛变时期被授权为合众国海陆军总司令的职权，作为一个适当的、必须的战略措施以便镇压上述叛变，特于1863年元月1日，从上面第一次所说之日起至今足足一百天的期间，根据这样的目的公开宣布现在反对合众国者有如下诸州及某些州的下列地区及其人民：
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomack, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts, are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
阿肯色、得克萨斯、路易西安那（除去圣伯尔拿、普拉奎明、哲斐孙、圣约翰、圣查理、圣詹姆士、亚森湘、亚森普欣、得里保恩、拉伐什、圣马利、圣马丁以及奥尔良等郡，包括新奥尔良城在内）、密西西比、亚拉巴马、佛罗里达、乔治亚、南卡罗来纳、北卡罗来纳和弗吉尼亚（除去西弗吉尼亚四十八个郡以及柏克立、阿康玛克、诺珊普顿、依利萨伯、约克、安公主、诺福克等郡包括诺福克和朴茨茅斯两城在内），这些除开的地区现在仍暂时维持本公告发出之前的原有状况。
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
为着上述的目的，我利用我的职权，正式命令并宣告在上述诸州以及某些州的上述地区以内所有作为奴隶的人现在和今后永远获得自由；合众国政府，包括海陆军当局在内，将承认并保持上述人们的自由。
And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
我现在命令这些被宣布自由的人们，除非是必须的自卫，不得有违法行为；我劝告他们，在任何可能的情况下，他们应当忠实地为合理的工资而劳动。
And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
我进一步宣告在适当条件下，这些人们可参加合众国的军事工作，驻守炮台、阵地、卫戍区域以及其他地区，以及在各种军舰上服役。
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
我真诚地相信这个举动是一个正义的举动，合于法律的规定，根据军事的需要。我祈求人类的慎重判断和万能上帝的恩典。
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
作为证明，我署名于此并加盖合众国国玺。
Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.
于华盛顿，1863年元月1日
合众国独立第87周年。
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
亚伯拉罕·林肯
William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
威廉·西华德（国务卿）
历史背景：南北战争爆发后，相当多的黑奴自愿为自身自由而协助联邦作战，但对如何处理占领地黑奴观点上仍有所冲突。林肯一开始收回某些将军自行发布的解放黑奴命令，而此政策严厉执行则造成逃亡黑奴必须回到他们南方主子那儿，但1862年3月13日邦联政府禁止所有联邦军指挥官遣返逃亡黑奴，如此影响了《1850年逃亡奴隶法》的废除。1862年4月11日，国会宣布联邦政府将保障释放黑奴的奴隶主，所有在华盛顿的黑奴于1862年4月16日获得解放。1862年7月19日国会废止联邦领土上的奴隶制度，如此使美国最高法院于1857年《得福德·史考特诉桑福德案》（Dred Scott v. Sandford）作出的`决议失去效力：此决议曾导致国会一度无权监督国土上的黑奴制度。
林肯曾宣称他自己没有法律赋予的权力解放黑奴，此外，解放黑奴是种具有风险的政治行为，因为仍有部分畜奴州效忠于联邦，且战争初始的目的集中在保护联邦的完整而非解放黑奴。基于如此，这份宣言当时只是份而由林肯自己理解为以三军统帅的身份所发表的军事命令，而非由国会公布具同等地位的法案或法律增修条文。另外有些论点认为解放奴隶宣言本身乃违宪，且是种领袖扩权指挥军队行动，而非创造新法（可参考《杨斯顿钢铁公司总统权限案》Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952) 其主张总统无权以三军统帅的身份掌控炼钢厂使其为韩战效力）。解放奴隶宣言也把解放黑奴的同意权让渡给联邦军队（虽然军队本身实行种族隔离），这难得的机会使将近20万多曾为奴隶的黑人受惠，也让北方人获得额外的人力资源而南方人却直到战败前几天还无法仿效。
林肯第一次与其内阁讨论宣言是在1862年7月，但考虑到此举对政治的种种影响（包括对联邦内的畜奴州），他觉得在发布前需要场联邦军的胜仗。在安地潭之役，联邦军队击退邦联对马里兰州的进犯后，他于1862年9月22日发布一份准备宣言，而最终的宣言则于隔年1月发布。
解放奴隶宣言自身受限于对奴隶制度的立即效用，仅能在联邦纳入控制下的邦联领土上生效，边界州（德拉瓦州、肯塔基州、马里兰州、密苏里州和西维吉尼亚州）的奴隶制度因其仍效忠联邦而丝毫不受影响。国务卿威廉·西华德（William Seward）曾于评论中谈到：“我们表达对奴隶制度的同情手法是解放那些我们管不著的奴隶以及奴役那些我们能解放的人们。”任何脱离联邦的州只要在宣言生效前重新加入联邦（或仅仅送他们的国会议员回华盛顿）便具有等同边际州的地位，并至少在当下能保有奴隶制度（虽然马里兰州、密苏里州和西维吉尼亚州早在 1865年美国法律第13号修正案批准解除全国奴隶制度的合法性以前，便透过内部政治运作逐步废除奴隶制度）。
关于演讲的经典句子
1、日本人宁愿喜欢黑人，也不喜欢我们，因为现在的中国人没有了精神。
2、日本人为什么不道歉，日本总统为什么不谢罪？因为他们知道，日本人的尊严和历史最重要，相反其它亚洲的不满太没有分量，所以他们可以置之不理。
3、未来20年，中国人崇拜的将是知识而不是官员。这一点我们应该向日本学习，这个民族对知识的尊重，无以复加。但现在在中国有点钱的人，有点小权的人——哪怕是个科长，也可以照样吧大学教授弄得没有尊严。这种貌似聪明的聪明，洋洋自得的市侩，是多么肤浅啊。
4、日本幼儿园的小朋友寒冬赤膊锻炼，他们即使有哭闹的，家长会拿着相机前面叫喊着鼓励他们。我们放学前，家长接孩子的车乱停放。新生报道的时候，随行6人团，爷爷奶奶外公外婆爸爸妈妈。民族不败，只跟与青年少年的精神，我们开始就输掉了精神。
5、只有中国女性才以男性的身高来判断他其他的能力，注重婚姻的'根本就是传宗接代，身体素质好又道德修养足矣，高大的身材帅气的脸蛋不代表他的身体好，高学历不代表他有到的修养。男人的一个肩膀是道德，另一个肩膀是本事，一个男人两肩有了道德（对情感的忠贞）和本事，不怕没有女人。
6、教育应该让中国懂得自尊。但是现在我们看到外国人就低头，女生看到外国垃圾一般的男人都想讨好。同志们，在外国人面前我们多么地没有尊严。在留学的日本东京大学的人当中，我是唯一回来的，但日本人反而敬重我，因为我活得有灵魂，活得有骨气。
7、我们要爱自己的专业，爱自己的专业如同爱自己的身体一样。
8、学校有些女生不自重，我们的女生见到垃圾一般的外国男人都要讨好。
9、你得信任某个东西，直觉也好，命运也好，生活也好，因果报应。
10、将来中国即使发达了，但你看看那些开着豪华车的富翁们从车窗外向外吐痰扔垃圾。你就知道，如果没有教育，中国再富裕也不会强大。
11、日本人侵犯我们，因为我们出了很多汉奸。将来日本人侵犯我们，还会不会有汉奸？谁将是未来中国的汉奸？在座的诸位很大一部分都将是。因为你们嘲笑爱国者，崇拜权势和金钱，鄙夷理想和志气。
12、不要抱怨国家学校没有给你提供机会。外国评论，中国是最有机会的国家，我们国家缺少的是有素质有准备的年轻一代。
13、会唱歌的人用气息发音，所以不累。当我看到你们说话时喉头是动的，我就知道你唱歌肯定不好。
14、大家都在嘲笑俄罗斯，但我知道俄罗斯将来一定会发达，因为那里的人2天没吃饭了饿着肚子还排队，而我们有2个人也要挤的不可开交。
15、因为信仰能给你自信，把你的想法变成现实，让你与众不同。
16、谁现在就是汉奸？北大清华的学生，因为用他们学习的知识帮外国人开拓市场，打败我们中国的企业。
17、学会做人，最重要的是要有民族文化的根基。民族文化是我们民族精神的根基，()民组语言是我们民族文化的核心。我们不能成为文化和精神的孤魂野鬼。
18、教育的本职不是谋生，而是唤起兴趣，鼓舞精神。靠教育来谋生和发达也是可以的，却被我们过度重视了。
19、读书是为了承担责任。但现在的教育让女人承担了太多责任，让男人逃避了太多责任。人类历史，实际就是一连串冲动。所以大家不要鄙视冲动，因为冲动都是可爱地。
20、我们漠视历史的价值，总以为楼宇越新越好，但你到法国市中心看看，几乎没有什么新建筑，他们以历史积淀为自豪，而我们以不断地拆楼建楼来折腾自己。
21、工作将是生活中的一大部分，让自己真正满意的唯一办法，是做自己认为有意义的工作。做有意义的工作的唯一办法，是热爱自己的工作
22、就像一切要凭着感觉去做的事情一样，一旦找到了自己喜欢的事，感觉就会告诉你。就像任何关系一样，都会随着时间的推移建立起来。
23、中国的篮球不缺乏技术，不缺乏金钱，但他们缺乏责任感，哪怕是对消费者的责任感。
24、女人什么是美？纯朴善良就是美。
25、教育不仅要灌输知识，更重要的是铸就一种精神，爱国主义应该是教育的主题。要有民族的认同感。南北朝鲜在金刚山相聚的热烈拥抱，旅居北美的犹太人依然放弃外国国籍活到战火纷飞的故乡，西德推倒柏林墙，美国西部的开发，巴勒斯坦的小孩子向经过的坦克投掷石头。
26、一个男人，只可以给自己的父母和妻子下跪，只可以对自己的老师鞠躬，绝对不应当对权贵与金钱低头。但如今，大多数人正好反了。
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I Have a Dream ——by Martin Luther King, Jr.
我有一个梦想——马丁路德金
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，参加这次将成为我国历史上为了争取自由而举行的最伟大的示威集会。
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
100年前，一位伟大的美国人——今天我们就站在他象征性的身影下——签署了《解放宣言》。这项重要法令的颁布，对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴，犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔，恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢的欢畅黎明。
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. 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.
然而，100年后，黑人依然没有获得自由。100年后，黑人依然悲惨地蹒跚于种族隔离和种族歧视的枷锁之下。100年后，黑人依然生活在物质繁荣翰海的贫困孤岛上。100年后，黑人依然在美国社会中间向隅而泣，依然感到自己在国土家园中流离漂泊。所以，我们今天来到这里，要把这骇人听闻的情况公诸于众。
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When 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 heir. This 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 concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
从某种意义上说，我们来到国家的首都是为了兑现一张支票。我们共和国的缔造者在拟写宪法和独立宣言的辉煌篇章时，就签署了一张每一个美国人都能继承的期票。这张期票向所有人承诺——不论白人还是黑人——都享有不可让渡的生存权、自由权和追求幸福权。
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 riches of freedom and the security of justice.
然而，今天美国显然对她的有色公民拖欠着这张期票。美国没有承兑这笔神圣的债务，而是开始给黑人一张空头支票——一张盖着“资金不足”的印戳被退回的支票。但是，我们决不相信正义的银行会破产。我们决不相信这个国家巨大的机会宝库会资金不足。
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
因此，我们来兑现这张支票。这张支票将给我们以宝贵的自由和正义的保障。我们来到这块圣地还为了提醒美国：现在正是万分紧急的时刻。现在不是从容不迫悠然行事或服用渐进主义镇静剂的时候。现在是实现民主诺言的时候。现在是走出幽暗荒凉的种族隔离深谷，踏上种族平等的阳关大道的时候。现在是使我们国家走出种族不平等的流沙，踏上充满手足之情的磐石的时候。现在是使上帝所有孩子真正享有公正的时候。
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 beginning. And 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 usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
忽视这一时刻的紧迫性，对于国家将会是致命的。自由平等的朗朗秋日不到来，黑人顺情合理哀怨的酷暑就不会过去。1963年不是一个结束，而是一个开端。 如果国家依然我行我素，那些希望黑人只需出出气就会心满意足的人将大失所望。在黑人得到公民权之前，美国既不会安宁，也不会平静。反抗的旋风将继续震撼我们国家的基石，直至光辉灿烂的正义之日来临。
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 deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
但是，对于站在通向正义之宫艰险门槛上的人们，有一些话我必须要说。在我们争取合法地位的过程中，切不要错误行事导致犯罪。我们切不要吞饮仇恨辛酸的苦酒，来解除对于自由的饮渴。 我们应该永远得体地、纪律严明地进行斗争。
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 force.
我们不能容许我们富有创造性的抗议沦为暴力行动。我们应该不断升华到用灵魂力量对付肉体力量的崇高境界。
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community 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 come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
席卷黑人社会的新的奇迹般的战斗精神，不应导致我们对所有白人的不信任——因为许多白人兄弟已经认识到：他们的命运同我们的命运紧密相连，他们的自由同我们的自由休戚相关。他们今天来到这里参加集会就是明证。
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. 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 brutality. We 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 cities. We 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 vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
我们不能单独行动。当我们行动时，我们必须保证勇往直前。我们不能后退。有人问热心民权运动的人：“你们什么时候会感到满意?”只要黑人依然是不堪形容的警察暴行恐怖的牺牲品，我们就决不会满意。只要我们在旅途劳顿后，却被公路旁汽车游客旅社和城市旅馆拒之门外，我们就决不会满意。只要黑人的基本活动范围只限于从狭小的黑人居住区到较大的黑人居住区，我们就决不会满意。只要我们的孩子被“仅供白人”的牌子剥夺个性，损毁尊严，我们就决不会满意。只要密西西比州的黑人不能参加选举，纽约州的黑人认为他们与选举毫不相干，我们就决不会满意。不，不，我们不会满意，直至公正似水奔流，正义如泉喷涌。
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
我并非没有注意到你们有些人历尽艰难困苦来到这里。你们有些人刚刚走出狭小的牢房。有些人来自因追求自由而遭受迫害风暴袭击和警察暴虐狂飙摧残的地区。你们饱经风霜，历尽苦难。继续努力吧，要相信：无辜受苦终得拯救。 回到密西西比去吧;回到亚拉巴马去吧;回到南卡罗来纳去吧;回到佐治亚去吧;回到路易斯安那去吧;回到我们北方城市中的贫民窟和黑人居住区去吧。要知道，这种情况能够而且将会改变。我们切不要在绝望的深渊里沉沦。
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And 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.
朋友们，今天我要对你们说，尽管眼下困难重重，但我依然怀有一个梦。这个梦深深植根于美国梦之中。
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "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 slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
我梦想有一天，这个国家将会奋起，实现其立国信条的真谛：“我们认为这些真理不言而喻：人人生而平等。” 我梦想有一天，在佐治亚州的红色山岗上，昔日奴隶的儿子能够同昔日奴隶主的儿子同席而坐，亲如手足。
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis 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.
我梦想有一天，甚至连密西西比州——一个非正义和压迫的热浪逼人的荒漠之州，也会改造成为自由和公正的青青绿洲。
我梦想有一天，我的四个小女儿将生活在一个不是以皮肤的颜色，而是以品格的优劣作为评判标准的'国家里。
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there 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 exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."?
我今天怀有一个梦。
我梦想有一天，亚拉巴马州会有所改变——尽管该州州长现在仍滔滔不绝地说什么要对联邦法令提出异议和拒绝执行——在那里，黑人儿童能够和白人儿童兄弟姐妹般地携手并行。
我今天怀有一个梦。
我梦想有一天，深谷弥合，高山夷平，歧路化坦途，曲径成通衢，上帝的光华再现，普天下生灵共谒。
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords 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.
这是我们的希望。这是我将带回南方去的信念。有了这个信念，我们就能从绝望之山开采出希望之石。有了这个信念，我们就能把这个国家的嘈杂刺耳的争吵声，变为充满手足之情的悦耳交响曲。有了这个信念，我们就能一同工作，一同祈祷，一同斗争，一同入狱，一同维护自由，因为我们知道，我们终有一天会获得自由。
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:
到了这一天，上帝的所有孩子都能以新的含义高唱这首歌：
My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
我的祖国， 可爱的自由之邦， 我为您歌唱。 这是我祖先终老的地方， 这是早期移民自豪的地方， 让自由之声， 响彻每一座山岗。如果美国要成为伟大的国家，这一点必须实现。因此，让自由之声响彻新罕布什尔州的巍峨高峰!
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped 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.
让自由之声响彻纽约州的崇山峻岭!
让自由之声响彻宾夕法尼亚州的阿勒格尼高峰!
让自由之声响彻科罗拉多州冰雪皑皑的洛基山!
让自由之声响彻加利福尼亚州的婀娜群峰!
不，不仅如此;让自由之声响彻佐治亚州的石山!
让自由之声响彻田纳西州的望山!
让自由之声响彻密西西比州的一座座山峰，一个个土丘!
让自由之声响彻每一个山岗!
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!
当我们让自由之声轰响，当我们让自由之声响彻每一个大村小庄，每一个州府城镇，我们就能加速这一天的到来。那时，上帝的所有孩子，黑人和白人，犹太教徒和非犹太教徒，耶稣教徒和天主教徒，将能携手同唱那首古老的黑人灵歌：“终于自由了!终于自由了!感谢全能的上帝，我们终于自由了!”
