I Have A Dream! - Martin Luther King`s Speech

"I have a dream"

 

 

 

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Martin Luther King's Speech -- I Have A Dream!

August 28, 1963

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

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 of hope to millions of slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro(colored America) is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro(colored American) is still sadly crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

One hundred years later, the colored American lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the colored American 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 a shameful condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our great 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, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed to 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 its colored people a bad check, a
check that 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 security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is not time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy.

Now it the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

Now it the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

Now is the time to make justice a reality to all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of it's colored citizens. This sweltering summer of the colored people's 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 colored Americans 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 colored citizen 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.

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 colored person's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.

We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "for white only."

We cannot be satisfied as long as a colored person in Mississippi cannot vote and a colored person 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 your trials and tribulations. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by storms of persecutions 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 modern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can
and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you, my friends, we have 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 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 out in 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 oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; that 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 engulfed, every hill shall be exalted and every mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains 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 will 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 climb 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 Pilgrim's 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 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 snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that, let freedom, ring from Stone
Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi and every mountainside.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's 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 spiritual,

"Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."

 

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It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
그 꿈은 아메리칸 드림에 깊이 뿌리를 둔 꿈입니다.

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."
나에게는 꿈이 있습니다, 언젠가는, 이 나라가 일어나 "모든 사람은 평등하게 태어났다 - 라는 진실을 우리는 자명으로 유지한다"라는 이 나라 강령의 참뜻대로 살아가는 날이 있을 것이라는 꿈이 있습니다.

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.
나에게는 꿈이 있습니다, 언젠가는, 조지아주의 붉은 언덕 위에서 노예들의 후손들과 노예소유주들의 후손들이 형제애의 식탁에서 함께 자리할 수 있을 것이라는 꿈이 있습니다.

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.
나에게는 꿈이 있습니다, 언젠가는, 불의의 열기로 무더운, 억압의 열기로 무더운, 저 미시시피마저도 자유와 정의의 오아시스로 변모할 것이라는 꿈이 있습니다.

 

I have a dream that my four little 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.
나에게는 꿈이 있습니다, 언젠가는, 나의 네명의 어린 아이들이 그들의 피부 색깔로서 판단되지 않고 그들의 개별성으로 판단되는 그런 나라에서 살게 될 것이라는 꿈이 있습니다.

 

I have a dream today. 오늘 나에게는 꿈이 있습니다.

 

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification", one day right there 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.
나에게는 꿈이 있습니다, 언젠가는, 사악한 인종차별주의자들이 있는 알라바마주, 연방정부의 법과 조치를 따르지 않겠다는 발언을 내뱉는 주지사가 있는 알라바마주, 언젠가는 바로 그 알라바마주에서, 어린 흑인 소년들과 어린 흑인 소녀들이, 어린 백인 소년들과 어린 백인 소녀들과 형제자매로서 손을 맞잡을 수 있을 것이라는 꿈이 있습니다.오늘 나에게는 꿈이 있습니다.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and 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.
나에게는 꿈이 있습니다, 언젠가는, 모든 골짜기들은 메워지고, 모든 언덕과 산들은 낮아지고, 거친 곳은 평평해지고, 굽은 곳은 펴지고, 하느님의 영광이 나타나고, 모든 사람들이 다같이 그 영광을 보게 될 것이라는 꿈이 있습니다.

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
이것이 우리의 희망이며, 이것이 내가 남부로 돌아갈 때 함께 하게 될 신념입니다.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
이 신념으로서, 우리는 절망의 산을 깎아 희망의 돌을 만들어 낼 수 있을 것입니다.

With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
이 신념으로써, 우리는 우리나라의 소란한 불협화음을 아름다운 형제애의 교향곡으로 변화시킬 수 있을 것입니다.

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 preedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
이 신념으로써, 우리가 언젠가는 자유로워 질 것이라 믿으면서,우리는 함께 일하고, 함께 기도하며, 함께 투쟁하며, 함께 감옥에 가고, 함께 자유를 위해 버텨낼 수 있을 것입니다.

And this will be the day, this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning.
이 날이, 이 날이 모든 하느님의 자식들이 새로운 의미의 노래를 부를 수 있는 바로 그 날이 될 것입니다.

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
나의 나라 그것은 하느님의 것, 달콤한 자유의 땅, 내가 노래하는 하느님의 것 나의 조상들이 죽은 땅, 개척자의 자부심이 있는 땅, 모든 산으로부터 자유가 울려 퍼지게 합시다.

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
미국이 위대한 나라가 되려면, 이것은 현실이 되어야 합니다.

And 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 snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
그래서 뉴햄프셔주의 경이로운 언덕으로부터 자유가 울려 퍼지게 합시다. 뉴욕의 거대한 산맥들로부터 자유가 울려 퍼지게 합시다. 펜실베니아주의 높다란 엘리게니산맥으로부터 자유가 울려 퍼지게 합시다. 콜로라도주의 눈덮인 록키산맥으로부터 자유가 울려 퍼지게 합시다. 캘리포니아주의 굽이진 비탈로부터 자유가 울려 퍼지게 합시다.

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.
그것 뿐만이 아닙니다. 조지아주의 스톤산으로부터 자유가 울려 퍼지게 합시다. 테네시주의 룩아웃산으로부터 자유가 울려 퍼지게 합시다. 미시시피주의 크고 작은 모든 언덕으로부터 자유가 울려 퍼지게 합시다. 모든 산으로부터 자유가 울려 퍼지게 합시다.

And when this happens, when we allow 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 God's 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
이렇게 될 때, 자유가 울리게 할 때, 모든 마을과 부락으로부터, 모든 주와 도시로부터, 자유가 울려 퍼지게 할 때, 모든 하느님의 자식들이, 흑인과 백인이, 유대인과 이교도들이, 개신교도와 카톨릭교도들이, 손을 잡고 옛 흑인영가의 구절을 노래부를 수 있는 그날을 우리는 앞당길 수 있을 것입니다.

 

Free at last, Free at last. 마침내 자유, 마침내 자유

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.
전능하신 하느님 감사합니다, 저희는 마침내 자유가 되었습니다.