晨读英语美文 I Have a Dream

I Have a Dream

[00:12.02]I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history

[00:17.71]as the greatest demonstration for freedom 

[00:21.20]in the history of our nation.

[00:22.30]Five score years ago,

[00:24.60]a great American,

[00:26.57]in whose symbolic shadow we stand 

[00:29.73]signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

[00:32.04]This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope

[00:37.14] to millions of Negro slaves

[00:38.93]who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.

[00:42.32]It came as a joyous daybreak 

[00:45.16]to end the long night of captivity.

[00:47.14]But one hundred years later,

[00:49.21]we must face the tragic fact 

[00:51.98]that the Negro is still not free.

[00:53.80]One hundred years later,

[00:55.89]the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled

[00:59.43] by the manacles of segregation

[01:01.14]and the chains of discrimination.

[01:03.54]One hundred years later,

[01:06.05]the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of

[01:10.26]a vast ocean of material prosperity.

[01:13.11]One hundred years later,

[01:15.30]the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society

[01:20.11]and finds himself an exile in his own land.

[01:23.50]So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.

[01:28.21]I say to you today,

[01:30.29]my friends,

[01:31.37]so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow.

[01:35.09]I still have a dream.

[01:37.39]It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

[01:40.89]I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up

[01:44.72]and live out the true meaning of its creed:

[01:48.10] We hold these truths to be self-evident:

[01:50.41]that all men are created equal.

[01:52.59]I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,

[01:56.31]every hill and mountain shall be made low,

[01:59.27]the rough places will be made plain,

[02:01.78]and the crooked places will be made straight,

[02:05.06]and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

[02:08.02]and all flesh shall see it together.

[02:10.39]This is our hope.

[02:11.81]So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

[02:16.19]Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

[02:19.47]Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

[02:23.45]Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!

[02:27.71]But not only that,

[02:29.46]let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

[02:32.74]Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

[02:36.25]Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi,

[02:41.17]from every mountainside.

[02:43.03]Let freedom ring and when this happens,

[02:45.76]when we allow freedom to ring,

[02:47.95]when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,

[02:51.74]from every state and every city,

[02:54.14]we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children,

[02:57.97]black men and white men,

[02:59.50]Jews and Gentiles,

[03:01.03]Protestants and Catholics,

[03:02.67]will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,

[03:07.26]Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty,

[03:10.87]we are free at last!