名人英语演讲稿：ATimetoBreakSilence-英语演讲稿

名人英语演讲稿： A Time to Break <br />Silence- 英语演讲稿 <br />i come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my <br />conscience leaves me no other choice. i join you in this meeting <br />because i am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the <br />organization which has brought us together: clergy and laymen <br />concerned about vietnam. the recent statements of your <br />executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart, and i <br />found myself in full accord when i read its opening lines: a <br />time comes when silence is betrayal. and that time has come for <br />us in relation to vietnam. <br /> the truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission <br />to which they call us is a most difficult one. even when pressed <br />by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task <br />of opposing their governments policy, especially in time of war. <br />nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against <br />all the apathy of conformist thought within ones own bosom and <br />in the surrounding world. moreover, when the issues at hand seem <br />as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful <br />conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by <br />uncertainty; but we must move on. <br /> and some of us who have already begun to break the silence <br />of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a <br />vocation of agony, but we must speak. we must speak with all <br />the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we <br />must speak. and we must rejoice as well, for surely this is the <br />first time in our nations history that a significant number of <br />its religious leaders have chosen to move beyond the <br />prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of a firm <br />dissent based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading <br />of history. perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. if it is, <br />let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being <br />may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of <br />a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us. <br /> over the past two years, as i have moved to break the <br />betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of <br />my own heart, as i have called for radical departures from the <br />destruction of vietnam, many persons have questioned me about <br />the wisdom of my path. at the heart of their concerns this query <br />has often loomed large and loud: why are you speaking about the <br />war, dr. king? why are you joining the voices of dissent? peace <br />and civil rights dont mix, they say. arent you hurting the cause <br />of your people, they ask? and when i hear them, though i often <br />understand the source of their concern, i am nevertheless <br />greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers <br />have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. indeed, <br />their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which <br />they live. <br /> in the light of such tragic misunderstanding, i deem it of <br />signal importance to try to state clearly, and i trust concisely, <br />why i believe that the path from dexter avenue baptist church <br />-- the church in montgomery, alabama, where i began my pastorate <br />-- leads clearly to this sanctuary tonight. 共 13 页，当前第 1 <br />页 12345678910111213