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关于梦想英语演讲稿 - 英语演讲稿 <br />five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic shadow <br />we stand signed the emancipation proclamation. this momentous <br />decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of negro <br />slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. <br />it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. <br /> but one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact <br />that the negro is still not free. one hundred years later, the <br />life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of <br />segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years <br />later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst <br />of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later, <br />the negro is still languishing in the corners of american <br />society and finds himself an exile in his own land. so we have <br />come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. <br />in a sense we have come to our nation ’s capital to cash <br />a check. when the architects of our republic wrote the <br />magnificent words of the constitution and the declaration of <br />independence, they were signing a promissory note to which <br />every american was to fall heir. this note was a promise that <br />all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, <br />liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. <br /> it is obvious today that america has defaulted on this <br />promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. <br />instead of honoring this sacred obligation, america has given <br />the negro people a bad check which has come back marked <br />“insufficient funds. ”�but we refuse to believe that the bank <br />of justice is bankrupt. we refuse to believe that there are <br />insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this <br />nation. <br /> so we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give <br />us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of <br />justice. <br /> we have also come to this hallowed spot to remind america <br />of the fierce urgency of now. this is no time to engage in the <br />luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of <br />gradualism. now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate <br />valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. now <br />is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of god ’s <br />children. now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands <br />of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. <br /> it would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency <br />of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the <br />negro. this sweltering summer of the negro’s legitimate <br />discontent will not pauntil there is an invigorating autumn of <br />freedom and equality. nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but <br />a beginning.