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"I have a dream"
Martin Luther King

“私には夢がある”
by マーティン・ルーサー・キング牧師

今日からちょうど45年前に、キング牧師が演説をしました。
それは人間にとって誰もが保証されるべき大切なもの、
平等と寛容な社会の実現を訴えた内容です。
多くのアメリカ国民に勇気と希望を与え続け、
今日まで伝えられています。


そして４５年後の今日、
人種としてはマイノリティーのオバマ氏が、
民主党の大統領候補として演説を行う予定です。
政治のイベントとしてだけでなく、
本当に国民が希望と期待をもって、
次期大統領を応援しているのです。

マスコミがなんと報道しようと、
自分の国、政治に希望と期待を持てるのはうらやましです。

演説の名手として認知されているオバマ氏ですが、
どんなスピーチをしてくれるのか、楽しみです。


キング牧師の演説ですが、
あえて原文を探してみました。↓

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Forty-five years ago today, Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech in Washington. His passionate and eloquent call for equality and tolerance inspired millions around the world.


'I have a dream'

On 28 August, 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his magnificent "I have a dream speech" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Below is the full text of his speech.

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, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.


America has given the Negro people a bad cheque which has come back marked 'insufficient funds'
But 100 years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.

And so we've come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a cheque. When the architects of our 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 would be guaranteed 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 colour are concerned. Instead of honouring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad cheque which 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've come to cash this cheque - a cheque that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

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