A Man Never to Stop ——Martin Luther King

“我有一个梦想,梦想真正意义的国家将上升,并活出它的信条的,我们把这些不证自明的真理,所有人都是平等的。“这是马丁路德金最喜欢的和最信服的句子在他的演讲中，本文将还原演讲的内容以及阐释的理念

A Man Never to Stop

“I have a dream, dream of the true meaning of nation will rise up and live out of its creed that we keep these self-evident truths that all men are created equal.” This is one of my favorite and most convinced sentences in my lecture I have a dream. My name is Martin Luther King, the leader of civil rights in America. I was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta when and where racial discrimination was so heavy and serious that black people had few rights to live in America. I hated such the problem and wanted to end the racial discrimination, which I believed as the God’s willing and I am just the very person to fulfill his willing. Therefore, I have organized many important movements to fight against the racial discrimination and made some contributions to the movement of civil rights. I just want to say I sincerely want to contribute my life to such movements and I will never stop the movements until the racial discrimination ends.

I was born into a happy family. My father is a priest, who teaches me how to be brave, strong and sincere. My mother is a teacher, and she teaches me love and sympathy. As a child, I have experienced the pain of being black people and dignity being humiliated and witnessed too many occasions that black people were insulted. Once time, when I was 8 years old and sitting in front of my house, I witnessed that a black man was walking along the street quietly, and met two white persons at the corner and quickly ran away, just like a mouse meeting a cat, but the two white just teased at and beat him instead of letting him off easily. The common thing looked so negligible for many people even the black, but it evoked my ambition to fight for equity and peace as a priest like my father ever since. I studied hard and entered Morehouse College for sociology at the age of 15. Later, with my great efforts, I entered Caratze Seminary and Boston University and got the degree of doctor of theology. I served as a priest in the Baptist Church in Montgomery of Alabama State. Meanwhile, with the increasing harm of racialism, I often took part in the fights against the racial apartheid actively. I have been firmly holding the idea of nonviolence to fight against the racial discrimination, which was influenced by Christianity and Ghandi, a great Indian pacifist to fight for freedom.

As a priest of Christianity, I stuck to nonviolence and used the unique weapons “love” and “kindness” to touch our enemies. On December 1, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Pasco, a black woman, refused to offer her seat to a white person in a bus after she got off work in Montgomery, and the black woman was thus arrested because of the so-called violation of isolation law. The judgment brought a great disturbance. At that time, I was just a priest in a small church, aging 26. I called upon other black people to fight against the thing, claiming not cooperation with the evil rule any more, not economical support for the automobile company any more. To lead the movement better, I remembered, at that time, the black established a Montgomery Improvement Association, and I was chosen as the chairman. When the notice of the strike of taking bus was travelled from one church to another, all the black people replied positively instantly, picking up the banner “not taking bus any more”, which spread to 35 cities very soon. To tell the truth, we met much difficulty, and even received threat, but we did not shrink at. all Enduring unimaginable hardship, walking from home to walk, and some even being fired, we did not give up at all, and we sang chants with tears, believing dignity is endowed by the God.

Actually, on January 1, 1956, when I was preaching in the church, I was told that my home was blast. My brothers all wanted use weapons to beat the white for revenge, but I said to them we should love them and they would have no excuses to beat us, because we should use power of love and kindness to deal with the enemy to win their friendship and comprehension. With our efforts, the federal court judged finally that the racial apartheid violated the constitution on November 13, 1956, symbolizing that the end of the strike of taking bus and the triumph plus power of non-violence to resist racial discrimination.

In January 1957, 60 black priests founded Southern Association of Christian leaders and I was consistently elected as its chairman. I went around here and there just for the peace and equity, and was chosen to be cover person of The Time on February 28, 1957, which was the symbol of the unity of the national black people.

With the civil right movement continuing, more and more people recognized me and I had more and more motivations to fight against racial discrimination. On August 23, 1963, that was, when I was 34 years old, I did a most proud thing for me in my life, I thought. On that day, I delivered a speech I have a dream in front of 250,000 people on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. I would never forget this speech in my life, and I was very grateful of those people’s coming. On that day, all the paces crammed people, roads, passages, balconies, etc. All the people put their eyes on me carefully. But I did not feel nervous at all, because I knew we gathered here, and we had the same ambition. My tones were sometimes high and sometimes low, and ware not disturbed at all. After ending my speech, I left with no applauses, which was not because I failed, but because they were still immersed in my speech and forgot to applaud. The speech was said to be the most successful and encouraging speech in history. As for me, however, I never cared about how great it was. What I wanted to express was just to call on our brothers and sisters to go together and fight against the racial discrimination and thus make a little bit contribution to the civil right movement.

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