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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　　What, then, remains to be argued? Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken? There is blasphemy in the thought. That which is inhuman, cannot be divine! Who can reason on such a proposition? They that can, may; I cannot. The time for such argument is passed.

　　那麽，还剩下什麽需要论证呢?要证明奴隶制不是天意、上帝并没有建立它吗?要证明我们的神学博士们是错的吗?这样想本身就是亵渎。非人道的东西不会是天意!有谁能够以此为题作出论证?那些能做到这一点的人也许会这样做，但我不能。现在已不是作此论证的时候了。

　　At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

　　今日此刻，需要的是灼热的钢铁，而非今人信服的论证。啊!要是我有此能力，要是我能让全国都听到我的呼声，今天我就会以滚滚巨流之势发出我尖刻无情的嘲笑、粉碎一切的谴责，摧枯拉朽的讽刺，声色俱厉的训斥。因为我们需要的不是光亮。而是火焰;我们需要的不是和风细雨，而是电闪雷鸣。我们要风暴，要飓风，要地震。国家的感情必须激励，国家的良知必须唤醒，国家的温良必须打破，国家的虚伪必须揭露。它对上帝和人类犯下的罪行必须公之于众，加以迎头痛击。

　　What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

　　你们的7月4日对美国黑奴有何意义?我的回答是：一年之中，没有哪一天比今日更使他们感到让自己无时不被沦为牺牲品的那种滔天的不公和残忍了。对他们来说，你们的庆典是欺人之道;你们鼓吹的自由是放肆的亵渎;你们的国家的伟大是虚荣的浮夸;你们的喜庆欢悦是空虚和无情的;你们对暴君的谴责是不要脸的厚颜无耻;你们自由平等的欢呼声是空洞的冒牌货;你们的祈祷和赞美诗，你们的布道和感恩，加上所有的宗教游*和仪式，不过是面对上帝的装腔作态、虚假欺骗、不虔的亵渎和虚伪的做作——不过是在野蛮人都会感到羞耻的罪行上覆盖的一层薄薄的纱巾。此时此刻，世界上还没有任何一个野蛮民族，没有任何一个其它民族，像美国人那样犯下了如此骇人听闻、鲜血淋淋的罪恶勾当。

　　Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

　　不论你们走到哪里，不论你们在哪里寻觅，游遍旧大陆的所有君主国和专制国家，踏遍整个南美洲，收集所有残忍的记录直至穷尽;然后把你们的调查结果与美国每天发生的事作个比较，你们就会与我一样得出结论：在令人发指的野蛮和厚颜无耻的伪善方面，美国的确是举世无双了。

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