新SAT必读演讲：7月4日对美国黑奴的意义

2016-05-03 17:24:00来源：网络

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　　For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver and gold; that, while we are reading, writing and cyphering, acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hill-side, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian’s God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!

　　此时此刻，只要肯定黑色人种同样具备人性也就足够了。我们耕耘、种植、收获;我们使用各种器械工具，建房、修桥、造船;我们利用各种金属，铜、铁、金、银;我们读书、写字、计算;我们当职员、商人、秘书;我们中间有律师、医生、牧师、诗人、作家、编辑、演说家和教师;我们从事其它人所从事的一切活动，在加利福尼亚开金采矿、在太平洋里捕鲸捉鱼、在山坡上放养牛羊，我们生活着、奔忙着、行动着、思考着、计划着;在家中我们是丈夫、妻子、儿女。最重要的是，我们承认和崇奉基督教的上帝，期求来世的洪福永生。而在此情况下，还要我们证明我们是人，岂不今人惊讶万分!

　　Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? that he is the rightful owner of his own body? You have already declared it. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for Republicans? Is it to be settled by the rules of logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a doubtful application of the principle of justice, hard to be understood? How should I look to-day, in the presence of Americans, dividing, and subdividing a discourse, to show that men have a natural right to freedom? speaking of it relatively, and positively, negatively, and affirmatively. To do so, would be to make myself ridiculous, and to offer an insult to your understanding. — There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

　　难道你们要我证明人有自由的权利，证明人是自身的正当主人?你们早巳声明如此了。我还须证明奴隶制的邪恶吗?这对共和主义者们还是个问题吗?这个问题竟如此困难，需要推敲其道义原则的合适性，这样深奥难解以至于要展开逻辑分析和辩论吗?当着美国人的面，我要是在发言中对此问题条分缕析、又核对又实证、又否定又肯定地证明人生来享有自由，那麽我会给你们以什麽印象呢?这样做我会显得荒唐可笑，也是对你们的理解力的不尊不敬。在天穹底下无人不晓奴隶制对他是不公正的。

　　What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employments for my time and strength than such arguments would imply.

　　将人变为野兽、剥夺他们的自由、使他们劳无所获、使他们对自己与他人的关系一无所知、对他们棍棒交加、用皮鞭抽打他们的肉体、将他们的四肢锁上镣铐、带着狼犬追捕他们、把他们拍卖于集市、让他们妻离子散、敲碎他们的牙齿、燎烙他们的皮肤、用饥饿迫使他们听话而屈从于主人——还用得着我来证明这一切都是不公正的吗?我还须证明一个血腥污臭的制度是邪恶的吗?不!我不愿。我的时间和精力要花在更值得于的事情上，而不是用来作此求证。

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