奥巴马演讲之纪念马丁.路德.金(通用6篇)
Today, the First Family participated in a community service project sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service in conjunction with Big Brothers Big Sisters and Greater DC Cares at the Browne Education Campus in Washington, DC.In the evening, the President and First Lady will attend the Let Freedom Ring concert in honor of Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.at the Kennedy Center.Also today, the Vice President and Dr.Jill Biden traveled to Philadelphia, PA, to participate in the 17th annual Greater Philadelphia Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.Day of Service.The Vice President delivered remarks at Girard College in North Philadelphia.Following his remarks, the Vice President and Dr.Biden participated in a service project at Girard College.For more on the Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.National Day of Service, please visit the Corporation for National and Community Service atCS: The Corporation for National and Community Service CEO Robert Velasco volunteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters of D.C.Senior staff also served at We Feed Our People, a signature event that serves hundreds of homeless District residents with a hot meals and warm clothing, and at Montgomery County Volunteer Center in Bethesda. Defense: On Thursday, January 26, Secretary Panetta will participate in the annual commemoration of Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.Day at the Pentagon.
School.Education: Secretary Duncan and his family joined the City Year service day at Dunbar High Energy: Secretary Chu hosted an event at the Department of Energy to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr.King.Secretary Chu was joined by C.T.Vivian, Vice President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Lynn Cothern, former aide to Coretta Scott King.
I have a dream
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 bad captivity.
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. So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
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. Some of you have come from areas where your 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. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
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 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.
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 children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color if 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 exalted, 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.
This is our hope. 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.
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 mountainside
Let freedom ring.
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. 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 snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slops 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!
马丁·路德·金于1929年1月15日出生在佐治亚州亚特兰大市的一个黑人牧师家庭。年少的金从母亲那里学会了怎样去爱、同情及理解他人;从父亲那里学到的是果敢、坚强、率直和坦诚。幼小的心灵里早早地萌发了对种族歧视强烈憎恨的种子。15岁时,聪颖好学的金以优异成绩连跳两级,从高中毕业,进入摩尔豪斯学院学习,成为院长梅斯博士的高材生。在梅斯博士的教育下,金不畏强暴的思想被提高到了理论的高度。
当时美国正值战后经济发展的巅峰时期,强大的政治、军事力量使它坐上了“自由世界”盟主的交椅。然而,在美国国内,曾经在战争期间维护过民主事业的黑人却在经济和政治上受到歧视和压迫。面对丑恶、冷酷的现实,年仅17岁的金发现了自己真正的价值是“为上帝服务”,他矢志为社会平等与正义作一名牧师。1949年,他进入著名的克拉泽神学院学习两年,获得神学学士学位;尔后进入波士顿大学攻读宗教学和教理神学,获得神学博士学位。5年大学期间,他孜孜不倦地尽情遨游在人类知识的海洋中。他潜心研究过马克思的社会主义、列宁的共产主义、法国哲学家勒努维埃的人格主义、爱尔兰哲学家伯克利的道德理想主义。他阅读柏拉图、卢梭和托洛的著作,潜心钻研过尼采的“超人”哲学和甘地的“非暴力主义”。他并非简单地、机械地接受这些思想家的观念,而是把它们作为可以播种自己信念的沃土,逐步形成了自己独到的理论基础。金认为,人人生而平等。不论男人女人、黑人白人、老人小孩和智者愚者,也不管人的爱好、资历和财产是否相同,都是人,是能够思维的人类大家庭中的一员,应该受到尊重。
金主张公正无私的爱、普遍的爱,爱一切人,甚至要爱敌人。“敌人不爱你,因为敌人不懂得什么是爱;我们爱敌人,是对一切人的救赎性的善良态度。” 信仰人的尊严和价值、基督教的普遍仁爱、甘地的不合作精神,构成了金的思想基础和行动准则。
1955年金领导了近5万名黑人展开了声势浩大的抵制公共汽车运动,迫使政府取消了运输工具上的座位隔离制。1957年金被推举为“南部基督教领袖联合会”主席。为了正义与和平,他四处奔走呼号。
1963年,为了使世界人民关注美国种族隔离问题,金会同其他民权运动领袖组织发起了历史性的“向首都华盛顿进军”的运动,要求职业和自由。就是在这次斗争中,金发表了他著名的演讲“我有一个梦想”。这一斗争终于使国会通过了1964年民权法案,授权联邦政府取消公共膳宿方面的种族隔离,宣布在公营设备方面和就业方面的种族歧视为非法。他由此获得了1964年诺贝尔和平奖。
2、昧着良心做事是不安全、不明智的。
3、良机对于懒惰没有用,但勤劳可以使最平常的机遇变良机。
4、最终,我们记得的不是我们敌人的话语,而是我们朋友的沉默。
5、一个真正的领导者并不是追求所有人的支持和认同,而是努力去促成各方达成一致。
6、我们必须接受失望,因为它是有限的,但千万不可失去希望,因为它是无限的。
7、正义是不分国家疆界的,任何地方的不公正不平等,都是对其他地方公平公正的威胁。
8、人本身就是目的,因为人是上帝的儿女。人不是为了国家而创造,正相反,国家是应该为人服务的。
9、倘若人民之中有一部分被压榨受欺凌、被迫犯罪或站在社会的对立面,我们就不能拥有一个有序健康的国家。
10、对一个人的终极衡量,不在于他所曾拥有的片刻安逸,而在于他处于挑战与争议的时代。
11、当我们严阵以待,保卫我们的民主不受外国的攻击时,我们也要关注在国内赋予全体国民越来越多的公平与自由。
12、倘若有一大群人经济落后,贫困潦倒,我们就不能真正繁荣昌盛。选自:格言大全 www.tui555.com
13、不抵抗和非暴力两者有很大不同。我当然不是叫你们逆来顺受……你们要站起来,昂首挺胸,全力对抗一个万恶的体制,你们不是胆小鬼。你们要抗争,同时认识到,非暴力的斗争方式在策略上和道德上都更加有益。
14、每当有事情发生的时候,懦夫会问:“这么做,安全吗?”患得患失的人会问:“这么做,明智吗?”虚荣的人会问:“这么做,受人欢迎吗?”但是,良知只会问:“这么做,正确吗?”
15、一个伟大的国家必然是充满爱心的国家,一个不关心弱势群体的人不可能成为伟人,而一个不关心贫困人群的国家也不可能成为伟大的国家。
16、我们肩负使命,要为弱者说话,为默默无闻的人说话,为我们国家的受害者说话,为这个国家称之为敌人的人说话,因为没有任何出自人类之手的文件,能够使他们成为不值得我们珍惜的人!
17、我提出:一个违反良心告诉他那是不公正法律的人,并且他愿意接受牢狱的刑罚,以唤起社会的良心认识到那是不正义的,实际上他表现了对法律的最高敬意。
18、你不愿为正义挺身而出的一刻,你已经死去。你不愿为真理挺身而出的一刻,你已经死去。你不愿为公正挺身而出的一刻,你已经死去。——马丁路德金名言
19、价值观的真正改变,意味着我们必须忠诚于全世界全人类,而不是只是关注自己的国家。每个国家都要发扬超过国家界限的忠诚,这样所有的国家才能呈现出自己最好的一面。
20、我有一个梦,梦想这国家要高举并履行其信条的真正涵义:“我们信守这些不言自明的真理:人人生而平等”。
21、我有一个梦,我梦想有朝一日,在乔治亚的红山上,昔日奴隶的儿子和昔日奴隶主的儿子能够同坐一处,共叙兄弟情谊。
22、我有一个梦,有朝一日,我的四个孩子将生活在一个不以肤色而是以品行来评判一个人优劣的国度里。我今天就有这样一个梦想。
23、还要等多久?快了,因为被践踏的真理必将重见天日。还要等多久?快了,因为没有什么谎言能够长盛不衰。
Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.on August 28, 1963.Source: Martin Luther King, Jr: The peaceful Warrior, pocket Books, NY 1968
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand 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 captivity.But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still 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 languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.In a sense we have come to our nations 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 would be guaranteed the inalienable 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 which has come back marked insufficient funds.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.So we have come to cash this check--a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.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 rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of Gods children.Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro.This sweltering summer of the Negros 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.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.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.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.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.The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to 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 their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.We cannot walk alone.And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall 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 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 the Negros basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.We can never 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.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 cells.Some of you have come from areas where your 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 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.Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, 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 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 slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.I have a dream that my four 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 the state of Alabama, whose governors lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, 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.This is our hope.This is the faith with which I return to the South.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.This will be the day when all of Gods children will be able to sing with a 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 mountainside, let freedom ring.And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.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 snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks 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 every 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 Gods 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!
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■马丁.路德.金
1929年1月15日,马丁.路德.金出生在美国的亚特兰大。他的父亲是牧师,母亲是教师。从母亲身上,他学会了怎样去爱、同情和理解他人;从父亲的言行中,他学到了果敢、坚强、率直和坦诚。他生活在黑人社区,深深感受到因种族不同而社会待遇不同的强烈反差。15岁时,他以优异成绩进入摩尔豪斯学院攻读社会学,后获得文学学士学位。
第一次世界大战后,美国的整体经济、政治和军事力量都大大增强,但黑人在经济和政治上受到严重的歧视与压迫,这激励马丁.路德.金立志为争取社会平等而奋斗。1955年获神学博士学位后,他到阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利市的一所基督教教堂作牧师。也就是从那年开始,他投身于为全美黑人争取权利的长达10多年的民权运动,并逐渐成为民权运动的领袖。1964年,他获得诺贝尔和平奖。
马丁.路德.金擅长演讲,他的演说酣畅淋漓、富有激情,他因此被誉为近百年来八大最具感染力的演说家之一。但是,马丁.路德.金为自己的梦想付出了血的代价。他一生曾三次被捕,三次被行刺。1968年4月4日,马丁.路德.金在田纳西州孟菲斯被一名狙击手暗杀。这名凶手名叫詹姆斯.厄尔.雷,是一个美国白人,2018年死在监狱中。为了
第 1 页 表彰金为民权运动做出的巨大贡献,美国政府规定,从1986年起,每年1月的第3个星期一为马丁.路德.金全国纪念日。在美国历史上,只有前总统华盛顿和林肯享有此类殊荣。
近年来美国因种族歧视引发的 大规模社会冲突
●1992年,白人警察殴打黑人司机罗德尼.金,引发洛杉矶大规模种族冲突,造成59人死亡,2300人受伤。
●2018年10月,美国佛罗里达州一名白人警察杀死一名黑人司机,引发当地**,致使15人受伤。
●2018年2月,黑人迪亚洛在纽约被4名白人警官连击41枪当场死亡,但杀人者竟然被判无罪,数十万黑人群众举行了声势浩大的抗议活动。
●2018年4月,美国辛辛那提市一名黑人青年只因违反交规就被白人警察开枪射杀,引发了大规模的种族暴力冲突。
●2018年6月17日晚,美国密歇根州的本顿城一名黑人摩托车手因遭警察追堵发生交通意外死亡,本顿城因此发生**,美国密歇根州不得不调派大批警察前往镇压,并且实施宵禁。
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