馬丁路德金英語演講稿：Where do we go from here
Now, in order to answer the question, "Where do we go from here?" which is our theme, we must first honestly recognize where we are now. When the Constitution was written, a strange formula to determine taxes and representation declared that the Negro was 60 percent of a person. Today another curious formula seems to declare he is 50 percent of a person. Of the good things in life, the Negro has approximately one half those of whites. Of the bad things of life, he has twice those of whites. Thus half of all Negroes live in substandard housing. And Negroes have half the income of whites. When we view the negative experiences of life, the Negro has a double share. There are twice as many unemployed. The rate of infant mortality among Negroes is double that of whites and there are twice as many Negroes dying in Vietnam as whites in proportion to their size in the population.
In other spheres, the figures are equally alarming. In elementary schools, Negroes lag one to three years behind whites, and their segregated schools receive substantially less money per student than the white schools. One twentieth as many Negroes as whites attend college. Of employed Negroes, 75 percent hold menial jobs.
This is where we are. Where do we go from here? First, we must massively assert our dignity and worth. We must stand up amidst a system that still oppresses us and develop an unassailable and majestic sense of values. We must no longer be ashamed of being black. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy.
Depiction of Blackness and Negro Contributions
Even semantics have conspired to make that which is black seem ugly and degrading. In Roget's Thesaurus there are 120 synonyms for blackness and at least 60 of them are offensive, as for example, blot, soot, grim, devil and foul. And there are some 134 synonyms for whiteness and all are favorable, expressed in such words as purity, cleanliness, chastity and innocence. A white lie is better than a black lie. The most degenerate member of a family is a "black sheep." Ossie Davis has suggested that maybe the English language should be reconstructed so that teachers will not be forced to teach the Negro child 60 ways to despise himself, and thereby perpetuate his false sense of inferiority, and the white child 134 ways to adore himself, and thereby perpetuate his false sense of superiority.
The tendency to ignore the Negro's contribution to American life and to strip him of his personhood, is as old as the earliest history hooks and as contemporary as the morning's newspaper. To upset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood. Any movement for the Negro's freedom that overlooks this necessity is only waiting to be buried. As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. No Lincolnian Emancipation Proclamation or Johnsonian Civil Rights Bill can totally bring this kind of freedom. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own Emancipation Proclamation. And, with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and say to himself and to the world, "I am somebody. I am a person. I am a man with dignity and honor. I have a rich and noble history. How painful and exploited that history has been. Yes, I was a slave through my fore parents and I am not ashamed of that. I'm ashamed of the people who were so sinful to make me a slave." Yes, we must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.
Basic Challenges
Another basic challenge is to discover how to organize our strength in terms of economic and political power. No one can deny that the Negro is in dire need of this kind of legitimate power. Indeed, one of the great problems that the Negro confronts is his lack of power. From old plantations of the South to newer ghettos of the North, the Negro has been confined to a life of voicelessness and powerlessness. Stripped of the right to make decisions concerning his life and destiny he has been subject to the authoritarian and sometimes whimsical decisions of this white power structure. The plantation and ghetto were created by those who had power. both to confine those who had no power and to perpetuate their powerlessness. The problem of transforming the ghetto, therefore, is a problem of power-confrontation of the forces of power demanding change and the forces of power dedicated to the preserving of the status quo. Now power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. Walter Reuther defined power one day. He said, "Power is the ability of a labor union like the U.A.W. to make the most powerful corporation in the world, General Motors, say 'Yes' when it wants to say 'No.' That's power."
Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites - polar opposites??so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on. What has happened is that we have had it wrong and confused in our own country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience.
This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.
Developing a Program?
We must develop a program that will drive the nation to a guaranteed annual income. Now, early in this century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and denunciation, as destructive of initiative and responsibility. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual's ability and talents. And, in the thinking of that day, the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber. We've come a long way in our understanding of human motivation and of the blind operation of our economic system. Now we realize that dislocations in the market operations of our economy and the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness and bind them in constant or frequent unemployment against their will. Today the poor are less often dismissed, I hope, from our consciences by being branded as inferior or incompetent. We also know that no matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands, it does not eliminate all poverty.
The problem indicates that our emphasis must be twofold. We must create full employment or we must create incomes. People must be made consumers by one method or the other. Once they are placed in this position we need to be concerned that the potential of the individual is not wasted. New forms of work that enhance the social good will have to be devised for those for whom traditional jobs are not available. In I879 Henry George anticipated this state of affairs when he wrote in Progress and Poverty:
The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriches literature and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by anirnal (sic) necessity. It is the work of men who somehow find a form of work that brings a security for its own sake and a state of society where want is abolished.
Work of this sort could be enormously increased, and we are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished. The poor transformed into purchasers will do a great deal on their own to alter housing decay. Negroes who have a double disability will have a greater effect on discrimination when they have the additional weapon of cash to use in their struggle.
Beyond these advantages, a host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated .
Now our country can do this. John Kenneth Galbraith said that a guaranteed annual income could be done for about twenty billion dollars a year. And I say to you today, that if our nation can spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here on earth.
Commitment To Nonviolence
Now, let me say briefly that we must reaffirm our commitment to nonviolence. I want to stress this. The futility of violence in the struggle for racial justice has been tragically etched in all the recent Negro riots. Yesterday, I tried to analyze the riots and deal with their causes. Today I want to give the other side. There is certainly something painfully sad about a riot. One sees screaming youngsters and angry adults fighting hopelessly and aimlessly against impossible odds. And deep down within them, you can even see a desire for self-destruction, a kind of suicidal longing.
Occasionally Negroes contend that the 1965 Watts riot and the other riots in various cities represented effective civil rights action. But those who express this view always end up with stumbling words when asked what concrete gains have been won as a result. At best, the riots have produced a little additional antipoverty money allotted by frightened government officials, and a few water-sprinklers to cool the children of the ghettos. It is something like improving the food in the prison while the people remain securely incarcerated behind bars. Nowhere have the riots won any concrete improvement such as have the organized protest demonstrations. When one tries to pin down advocates of violence as to what acts would be effective, the answers are blatantly illogical. Sometimes they talk of overthrowing racist state and local governments and they talk about guerrilla warfare. They fail to see that no internal revolution has ever succeeded in overthrowing a government by violence unless the government had already lost the allegiance and effective control of its armed forces. Anyone in his right mind knows that this will not happen in the United States. In a violent racial situation, the power structure has the local police, the state troopers, the National Guard and, finally, the Army to call on??all of which are predominantly white. Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been successful unless the violent minority had the sympathy and support of the nonresistant majority. Castro may have had only a few Cubans actually fighting with him up in the hills, but he could never have overthrown the Batista regime unless he had the sympathy of the vast majority of Cuban people.
It is perfectly clear that a violent revolution on the part of American blacks would find no sympathy and support from the white population and very little from the majority of the Negroes themselves. This is no time for romantic illusions and empty philosophical debates about freedom. This is a time for action. What is needed is a strategy for change, a tactical program that will bring the Negro into the mainstream of American life as quickly as possible. So far, this has only been offered by the nonviolent movement. Without recognizing this we will end up with solutions that don't solve, answers that don't answer and explanations that don't explain.
And so I say to you today that I still stand by nonviolence. And I am still convinced that it is the most potent weapon available to the Negro in his struggle for justice in this country. And the other thing is that I am concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer but you can't murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.
And I say to you, I have also decided to stick to love. For I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate. I've seen too much hate on the faces of sheriffs in the South. I've seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
I want to say to you as I move to my conclusion, as we talk about "Where do we go from here," that we honestly face the fact that the Movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. There are forty million poor people here. And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's market place. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, "Who owns the oil?" You begin to ask the question, "Who owns the iron ore?" You begin to ask the question, "Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two thirds water?" These are questions that must be asked.
About Communism
Now, don't think that you have me in a "bind" today. I'm not talking about Communism.
What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
If you will let me be a preacher just a little bit - One night, a juror came to Jesus and he wanted to know what he could do to be saved. Jesus didn't get bogged down in the kind of isolated approach of what he shouldn't do. Jesus didn't say, "Now Nicodemus, you must stop lying." HE didn't say, "Nicodemus, you must stop cheating if you are doing that." He didn't say, "Nicodemus, you must not commit adultery." He didn't say, "Nicodemus, now you must stop drinking liquor if you are doing that excessively." He said something altogether different, because Jesus realized something basic - that if a man will lie, he will steal. And if a man will steal, he will kill. So instead of just getting bogged down in one thing, Jesus looked at him and said, "Nicodemus, you must be born again."
He said, in other words, "Your whole structure must be changed." A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them - make them things. Therefore they will exploit them, and poor people generally, economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I am saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"
Conclusion
So, I conclude by saying again today that we have a task and let us go out with a "divine dissatisfaction." Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort and the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice. [,et us be dissatisfied until those that live on the outskirts of hope are brought into the metropolis of daily security. Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history, and every family is living in a decent sanitary home. Let us be dissatisfied until the dark yesterdays of segregated schools will be transformed into bright tomorrows of quality, integrated education. Let us be dissatisfied until integration is not seen as a problem but as an opportunity to participate in the beauty of diversity. Let us be dissatisfied until men and women, however black they may be, will be judged on the basis of the content of their character and not on the basis of the color of their skin. Let us be dissatisfied. Let us be dissatisfied until every state capitol houses a governor who will do justly, who will love mercy and who will walk humbly with his God. Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Let us be dissatisfied until that day when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together. and every man will sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid. Let us be dissatisfied. And men will recognize that out of one blood God made all men to dwell upon the face of the earth. Let us be dissatisfied until that day when nobody will shout "White Power!" - when nobody will shout "Black Power!" - but everybody will talk about God's power and human power.
I must confess, my friends, the road ahead will not always be smooth. There will still be rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment. There will be inevitable setbacks here and there. There will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair. Our dreams will sometimes be shattered and our ethereal hopes blasted. We may again with tear-drenched eyes have to stand before the bier of some courageous civil-rights worker whose life will be snuffed out by the dastardly acts of bloodthirsty mobs. Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. And as we continue our charted course, we may gain consolation in the words so nobly left by that great black bard who was also a great freedom fighter of yesterday, James Weldon Johnson:
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days
When hope unborn had died.
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place
For which our fathers sighed?
We have come over the way
That with tears hath been watered.
We have come treading our paths
Through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the bright gleam
Of our bright star is cast.
Let this affirmation be our ringing cry. It will give us the courage to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom. When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
Let us realize that William Cullen Bryant is right: "Truth crushed to earth will rise again." Let us go out realizing that the Bible is right: "Be not deceived, God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." This is our hope for the future, and with this faith we will be able to sing in some not too distant tomorrow with a cosmic past tense, "We have overcome, we have overcome, deep in my heart, I did believe we would overcome."
現在,為了回答這個問題,“我們該何去何從呢?”是我們的主題,我們首先必須坦白承認我們現在是在什么地方。當美國憲法形成書面的文本時,一個陌生的公式來決定稅收和表示宣布黑人是60%的人。另一個古怪的公式,今天似乎聲稱自己是50%的人。在生命中的美好事物,黑人有大約一半的人。糟糕的事情,他的生活的那些白人兩次。因此一半的黑人居住環(huán)境不達標。有一半的收入和黑人白人。當我們的生活的負面經驗,黑人有雙重的份額。有兩倍的失業(yè)。嬰兒死亡率的黑人和白人翻兩倍黑人和白人在越南戰(zhàn)爭中死去的大小比例的人口。
在其他領域,這個數字是同樣讓人擔憂。在小學里,黑人落后一到三年內,他們背后白人種族隔離的學校的每個學生充分地受到更少的錢比白人學校。一個黑人和白人二十多上大學。雇傭黑人,75%的卑微職位舉行。
這是我們的位置。我們該何去何從?首先,我們必須大量維護我們的尊嚴和價值。我們必須站起來,在一個系統,以及開發(fā)一個壓迫我們仍然是無懈可擊的宏偉的價值觀。我們必須不再羞愧的是黑色的。這項工作的人,在一個成年喚起已經教了很多個世紀,他們都沒人是不容易的。
描繪的黑暗和黑人的貢獻
即使語義學已造成那黑色的丑,可恥的。在?羅杰的同義詞典有120個同義詞為黑暗和至少60個都是進攻,例如、玷污、煙塵、殘酷,魔鬼和犯規(guī)。還有一些134個同義詞和所有優(yōu)惠,白表達這樣的話純潔、清潔、貞潔、純真。一個善意的謊言比一只黑色的謊言。最墮落的成員的家庭是一個“害群之馬”。戴維斯奧西(奧斯曼的建議也許英語語言應該重建讓老師不會強迫教黑人孩子如何輕視自己60,從而延續(xù)他的錯誤的安全感,白色的孩子自卑的方式來崇拜自己134,從而延續(xù)他的假的優(yōu)越感。
這個傾向于忽視了黑人的美國人的生活,剝去他的戰(zhàn)做人,是最早的歷史和現代如早晨的報紙。讓這個文化殺人,黑人要起來定一個肯定自己的奧林匹斯已經成年。任何運動為黑人的自由,俯瞰這需要僅僅是等待。只要心被奴役,身體就會永遠是免費的。心理自由、嚴格意義的自尊,是最強大的武器攻擊的漫漫長夜里,物理奴隸制。沒有Lincolnian解放宣言或Johnsonian民權法案完全可以把這樣的自由。黑人只能自由時,他一直延伸到他的內心深處的存在和符號與筆和墨水的成年的自信自己解放宣言。與精神緊張,并向真正的自尊,黑人必須勇敢地拋棄的鐐銬,自言自語,貫通于對世界說道:“我是大人物。我是一個人。我是一個人的尊嚴和尊重。我有一個富有和高貴的歷史。多么痛苦和剝削的歷史了。是的,我是個奴隸穿過我的父母和我不是涌現的羞恥。我很慚愧,肉體的人,所以讓我成為一個奴隸。”是的,我們必須站起來,說,“我是黑色,我很漂亮,”這個自我的肯定是黑人的需要,使引人注目的白人的罪行起訴他。
基本的挑戰(zhàn),
另一個基本的挑戰(zhàn)是如何發(fā)現如何組織力量在經濟和政治上的權力。沒有人能否認黑人急需這種合法權力。事實上,有一位偉大的問題是他的黑人面臨缺乏力量。從古老的南方種植的新猶太區(qū)的北方,黑人被困于生活的voicelessness和無力。剝奪權利決定他的生活和命運,他受到了獨裁的,有時是異想天開的決策的白色的權力結構。種植園和黑人區(qū)的是由那些曾power.都把那些沒有能力和延續(xù)他們的無力感。黑人區(qū)的問題,因此,改變是一個問題的power-confrontation勢力的權力要求改變力量的力量致力于保護的現狀?，F在電力正確理解無非是能達到目的。這是必須的力量帶來的社會、政治和經濟的變化。沃爾特魯瑟定義的權力的一天。他說,“權力的控制能力,如美國汽車業(yè)的工人工會使最強大的公司,是世界上最通用汽車,說“是”的時候就想說"那是權力。”
現在很多人傳教士,和所有的人都有我們的道德信念和擔憂,所以經常有問題。有什么毛病是正確使用電力如果力量。你看,什么事情是我們的一些哲學家下車的基地。和最大的問題之一是,歷史上的概念被愛和力量對比,如對立兩極oppositesNNso愛等同于一個辭職的力量,并與一個否定的愛。
正是這種誤解導致尼采,誰是哲學家的權力意志,反對基督教觀念的愛。這是這個相同的誤解引起基督教神學家駁回Nietzschean哲學的權力意志之名基督徒愛的觀念。現在,我們必須把這件事吧。我們需要的是一個沒有愛的力量是實現和虐待的,愛魯莽停電是感傷和貧血。最好是愛的力量執(zhí)行正義和公正的力量都是站在愛的修正。這是我們必須看到我們繼續(xù)前進?，F在的情況是,我們已經是錯誤的和困惑在自己的家鄉(xiāng),這使得美國黑人在過去尋求他們的目標,通過電力缺乏愛的良心。
這是導致一些極端分子現在提倡黑人相同的破壞性力量,他們,沒有良心的獨有的厭惡。正是這種碰撞不道德的力量與無能為力的道德構成了我們這個時代的重大危機。
開發(fā)一個程序嗎?
我們必須制定一個計劃,將這個國家有保證的年收入?，F在,早在這個世紀的這項提案將被報以嘲笑和譴責,極具破壞性的主動性和責任感。當時的經濟狀況被認為是衡量個人的能力和天賦。在思考,那一天,沒有世俗財物表示要勤勞的習慣和品格。我們經歷了一段漫長的路在我們理解人類的動機和盲目作業(yè)我國經濟體制的?，F在我們意識到中國市場經濟,普遍存在的歧視推力人變成懶惰和綁在恒定或頻繁的失業(yè)率違背自己的意愿。今天的可憐的更少,我希望從我們的良心被冠名為劣質或撤換。我們也知道,無論多么動態(tài)經濟的發(fā)展和擴大,它沒有消除所有的貧窮。
這個問題必須指出,我們的重點因素。我們必須創(chuàng)造充分就業(yè)或必須創(chuàng)造收入。人們必須使消費者或是其他的方法之一。一旦被放置在這個位置我們需要擔心這些潛在的個人不浪費。新形式的工作,提高社會良好必須想出了那些為誰傳統的工作。在I879亨利·喬治預期這種情況時,他在進步和貧窮。
事實是,這項工作的條件,提高人類的工作,擴展,增加力量和豐富的知識,提高文學思想,不做安全的生活。這不是工作的奴隸驅使他們的任務,在任務的嚴師,或由anirnal(sic)的必要性。這是男人的工作的一種工作,最終能帶來一個安全的地方,一個國家的社會是要廢除。
這樣的工作可能極大地增加了,我們會發(fā)現一些亟待解決的問題,而是住房和教育,消除貧困之前要受貧窮,首先是如果廢除。窮人變成購買者會大量依靠自己的力量去改變房屋腐爛。誰有雙重殘疾黑人將有一個更大的影響時,他們有額外歧視的現金使用的武器在他們的斗爭。
除了這些優(yōu)勢,積極心理變化勢必引起廣泛的經濟安全。個人要發(fā)旺的時候,關于他的人生決定是在他的手中,他已經手段尋求自我完善。個人之間的矛盾,妻子和孩子的丈夫會削弱人體測量時,不值得規(guī)模的美元是消除。
現在我們國家能做到這一點。約翰·肯尼斯·加爾布雷思說,保證可實現年銷售收入為大約20億美元。今天,我對你們說,我們要花350億美元一年,邪惡的不公平的戰(zhàn)斗在越南戰(zhàn)爭期間,20億美元來把人送上月球,它可以花數十億美元來把上帝的孩子在他們自己的兩只腳就在這里。
致力于非暴力
現在,讓我說,我們必須重申我們簡短承諾非暴力。我想強調這一點。這種毫無意義的暴力的種族平等的斗爭已經在最近不幸蝕刻的黑人暴動。昨天,我試圖分析的暴動和處理它們的原因。今天我要給對方。的確有一些悲痛有關暴動。有人看到青少年和成年人的尖叫,漫無目的的憤怒絕望地斗爭反對不可能的挑戰(zhàn)。和內心深處,你甚至可以看到一個愿望,一種自我毀滅的自殺的渴望。
偶爾黑人認為1965年的美國瓦茨暴亂和其它暴亂在各城市的代表了有效的公民權利行為。但是那些表達這種觀點總是最后的話,當被問到什么絆已經贏得了混凝土所得的結果。充其量,暴亂產生一點額外的反政府官員被嚇壞了資金分配,幾water-sprinklers冷靜的貧民窟。這有點像提高食品在監(jiān)獄里的人保持安全而被關押在獄。沒有贏得任何具體的騷亂,改善組織的抗議活動,如有示威游行。當一個試圖牽制倡導的暴力行為,什么是有效的,答案是符合邏輯的。有時他們推翻種族歧視的州和當地政府和他們談游擊戰(zhàn)。他們不知道:從來沒有內在革命成功推翻政府通過暴力,除非政府已經失去了效忠和有效的控制自己的武裝力量。任何人在他的心里知道這不會發(fā)生在美國。在一次猛烈的種族狀況、權力結構有當地警察傘兵,國民警衛(wèi)隊,最后打電話給onNNall軍隊的主要是白色的。另外,一些如果任何暴力革命已經成功,除非強暴的慰問和支持少數研究的多數。卡斯特羅可能只有幾古巴人實際上與他在群山之中,但是他絕對不會推翻巴蒂斯塔政權的,除非他有同情心的絕大多數的古巴人。
事實是,一個暴力革命的美國黑人會找不到的同情和支持,白色的人口的絕大多數的黑人。這是沒有時間為浪漫幻想和空的哲學辯論的自由。這是一個行動的時候了。我們需要的是一個戰(zhàn)略戰(zhàn)術上的變化,這是一個程序,這將帶來了黑人進入主流的美國人的生活,越快越好。到目前為止,這僅僅是由非暴力運動。沒有認識到這一點,我們將會以解決方案,并沒有解決,答案,不要回答和解釋,不要解釋。
所以,今天我要對你們說,我還是站在非暴力。我仍然相信它是我見過的最有力的武器,可以在自己的奮斗的黑人正義。和其他的事情是,我很擔心一個更美好的世界。我很擔心正義。我很擔心手足情誼。我關心的真理。當一個關心這些,他永遠也不能崇尚暴力。你可以通過暴力的謀殺案兇手,但你不能殺人。你可以通過暴力謀殺說謊的人,但是你不能建立的真理。你可以通過暴力謀殺了勁敵,但是你不能謀殺恨。黑暗無法熄滅的黑暗。只有光明能做這件事。
我又告訴你們,我也決定堅持愛。因為我知道愛是最終的唯一辦法是人類的問題。我打算去談論它無處不在,我走了。我知道這不是流行的談論它,在某些場合。我不是在談論情感波什談論愛情,我正在談論的是一位強壯,要求的愛。我看到太多的仇恨。我看過太多仇恨的臉上行政長官在南方。我看過討厭的臉上太多太多的白色的公民Klansmen和南方的比例要恨我自己,因為我每次看見它,我知道它確實一些他們的臉,使他們的個性和我對我自己說,恨是不能承受的負擔。我已經決定去愛。如果你正在尋找最高的好,我認為你能找到它。美麗的東西,就是我們正在攻擊錯了,當我們這樣做,因為約翰是正確的,神就是愛。他討厭的、就不認識神,但他喜歡有一把鑰匙,打開門,終極實在的意義。
我想告訴你我搬到我的結論,當我們談“我們該何去何從,“那我們誠實的面對這個事實本身的動作必須解決的問題,整個美國社會的調整。有40億的窮人。有一天,我們必須問這樣的問題,“為什么有40億的窮人在美國嗎?”當你開始問這樣的問題,你應該對經濟系統,更廣泛的分配的財富。當你問這個問題,你開始質疑的資本主義經濟。我只是說,越來越多的時候,我們要開始詢問關于整個社會。我們都被召喚來幫助氣餒的乞丐,在生活的市場。但是有一天,我們必須看見一個大廈所產生的乞丐需要重組。這意味著問題必須得到提高。你看,我的朋友,當你處理這件事,你開始問這樣的問題:“誰擁有這些石油嗎?”你開始問這樣的問題:“誰擁有鐵礦嗎?”你開始問這樣的問題,“為什么人們要付水費漲價,在這世界上三分之二水嗎?”這些問題,必須問。
關于共產主義,
現在,不要以為你有我在一個“綁”。我不是在談論共產主義。
我對你說的是,今天早上忘了說生命是個體的共產主義。資本主義社會,忘記了一點生命王國的兄弟是既沒有發(fā)現在論文的共產主義和資本主義的對立面,但在一個更高的合成。它在一個更高的合成方法相結合的真理。現在,當我說問題整個社會來說,這意味著最終來看,問題的種族歧視的問題,實現經濟開發(fā)的問題,和戰(zhàn)爭都是相連的。這些是三大罪惡,是相互聯系的。
如果你讓我成為一名牧師只是一點點,一天晚上,一個陪審員來到耶穌那?堙a他想知道他可以做的。耶穌不拘泥于種孤立的方法。他不應該做的。耶穌沒說,“現在,尼哥底母,你必須停止撒謊。”他沒說:“尼哥底母,你必須停止作弊,如果你是這樣做。”他沒說:“尼哥底母,你千萬不要犯奸淫。”他沒說:“尼哥底母,你現在必須停下來喝白酒,如果你是這樣做。”他說一些完全不同的東西,因為耶穌意識到一些基本的--如果一個男人會說謊,他會偷來的。如果一個男人要偷竊,他會宰了。所以,而不只是陷入困境的一件事,耶穌看著他,說:“尼哥底母,你必須重生。”
他說,換句話說,"你的整個結構必須改變。”一個國家,這將使人們在奴隸制為244年將“thingify”--他們使他們的事情。因此,他們一定會利用他們,可憐的人一般,經濟的方法。一個國家一定會利用和經濟會有外國投資和其它的事情,而且要用其軍事力量來保護他們。所有的這些問題都是相連的。我所說的是,今天我們必須離開本公約,然后說:“美國,你必須重生!”
結論
所以,我得出這樣的結論:今天又說,我們有一個任務,讓我們一起出去一個“神圣的不滿。”讓我們到美國的不滿將不再有高血壓的教條和貧血的行為。讓我們不滿意,直到悲慘的墻壁,獨立的外部城財富和安慰和內在的城市貧困和絕望的必被撞城錘,正義的力量,等。[我們直到那些居住不滿于市郊的希望被帶到這個大都市的日常安全。讓我們不滿直到貧民窟是投進的垃圾堆積的歷史,和每一個家庭是生活在一個像樣的衛(wèi)生回家。讓我們不滿意,直到黑昨日的男女分校也會變成光明的明天的質量、綜合教育。讓我們不滿直到集成不是問題,而是一個機會來參加這個美麗的多樣性。讓我們不滿意的男人和女人,但直到黑人,也必怎樣被論斷;在此基礎上對他們的品格特征的基礎上,而不是他們的膚色。讓我們不滿意。讓我們不滿意直到每個州國會有誰會做州長、誰將愛憐憫誰、必悄悄跟他的神。讓我們從各城堂不滿直到,正義就如大水滾滾,使公義如江河滔滔。讓我們不滿直到那天獅子和羔羊必安然躺臥。和4人人都要坐在自己葡萄樹下和無花果樹下、無人害怕。讓我們不滿意。與人會認出了血神造人,都住在地上。讓我們不滿直到那天,當沒有人會喊“白色的力量!”--沒有人會喊“黑色力量!”--但是每個人都會談論上帝的力量和人類的權力。
我必須承認,我的朋友,前面的路不會一帆風順。還會有巖石的地方,蜿蜒的挫折和困惑。將會有必然的挫折。將會有那時候的浮力希望將會變成了絕望的疲勞。我們的夢想會在我心中永遠都是。我們可以再次與tear-drenched眼睛要站立在棺材的勇敢的民權的工人將會扼殺生命的卑鄙的行為的怪物嗜血。困難和痛苦時,我們必須走在未來的日子里與一個大膽的信心。當我們繼續(xù)我們的路線,當然,我們得安慰的話那么高尚,黑人詩人所留下的是自由斗士的昨天,詹姆斯?約翰遜。
我們走過的路,石,
苦錘煉之杖
在這個日子
出生的時候希望已經去世了。
但以一個穩(wěn)定的節(jié)拍,
沒有我們歇歇腳
來到這個地方
對于我們列祖嘆了嗎?
我們已經來了
那淚水已經被澆水。
我們已經踐踏我們的路
通過血液的屠殺,
從陰暗的過去,
到目前為止,我們就會站起來
在明亮的微光嗎
我們的明星。
讓這肯定是我們呼。它將給予我們勇氣去面對不確定性的未來。這將給我們的疲倦的雙腳新的力量,我們將繼續(xù)我們的前鋒向城市自由邁進。當我們的日子變得沉悶與低盤旋絕望的云,當我們的夜晚變得更深一千人midnights,讓我們記住,這是一種創(chuàng)造性的力量在這個宇宙,拆掉了巨大的山脈中,這是邪惡力量能使之路和改造黑暗沒有光明的明天。昨日讓我們意識到的宇宙的道德是什么顏色?它是長的,但是它對正義的彎曲。
讓我們意識到,威廉·卡倫·布賴恩特是正確的:“真擠土會再度上升。”讓我們去認識到《圣經》是正確的:“不要自欺、神是輕慢不得的。是什么,收的也是什么。”這是我們對未來的希望,并帶著這樣的信念,我們將能夠在一些不太遙遠的明天宇宙過去時態(tài),“我們已經克服,我們克服了,在我內心深處,我相信我們一定會克服的。”
演講背景：
馬丁·路德·金最有影響力且最為人知的一場演講是1963年8月28日的《我有一個夢想》，迫使美國國會在1964年通過《民權法案》宣布種族隔離和種族歧視政策為非法政策。Where do we go from here是同時期的演講。
