馬丁路德金我有一個夢想演講稿
❶ 《我有一個夢想》——馬丁·路德·金中文演講稿
Martin Luther King, Jr.
馬丁。路德金
I have a dream 我有一個夢想
一百年前，一位偉大的美國人簽署了解放黑奴宣言，今天我們就是在他的雕像前集會。這一庄嚴宣言猶如燈塔的光芒，給千百萬在那摧殘生命的不義之火中受煎熬的黑奴帶來了希望。它的到來猶如歡樂的黎明，結束了束縛黑人的漫漫長夜。
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 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 bad captivity.
然而一百年後的今天，黑人還沒有得到自由，一百年後的今天，在種族隔離的鐐銬和種族歧視的枷鎖下，黑人的生活備受壓榨。一百年後的今天，黑人仍生活在物質充裕的海洋中一個貧困的孤島上。一百年後的今天，黑人仍然萎縮在美國社會的角落裡，並且意識到自己是故土家園中的流亡者。今天我們在這里集會，就是要把這種駭人聽聞的情況公諸於眾。
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is 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 languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we』ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
我並非沒有注意到，參加今天集會的人中，有些受盡苦難和折磨，有些剛剛走出窄小的牢房，有些由於尋求自由，曾早居住地慘遭瘋狂迫害的打擊，並在警察暴行的旋風中搖搖欲墜。你們是人為痛苦的長期受難者。堅持下去吧，要堅決相信，忍受不應得的痛苦是一種贖罪。
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution 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.
讓我們回到密西西比去，回到阿拉巴馬去，回到南卡羅萊納去，回到喬治亞去，回到路易斯安那去，回到我們北方城市中的貧民區和少數民族居住區去，要心中有數，這種狀況是能夠也必將改變的。我們不要陷入絕望而不能自拔。
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 northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
朋友們，今天我對你們說，在此時此刻，我們雖然遭受種種困難和挫折，我仍然有一個夢想。這個夢是深深紮根於美國的夢想中的。
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
我夢想有一天，這個國家會站立起來，真正實現其信條的真諦：「我們認為這些真理是不言而喻的；人人生而平等。」
I have a dream that one daythis nation will rise up, live up to the true meaning of its creed: 「We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.」
我夢想有一天，在喬治亞的紅山上，昔日奴隸的兒子將能夠和昔日奴隸主的兒子坐在一起，共敘兄弟情誼。
I have a dream that one dayon 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.
我夢想有一天，甚至連密西西比州這個正義匿跡，壓迫成風，如同沙漠般的地方，也將變成自由和正義的綠洲。
I have a dream that one dayeven 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.
我夢想有一天，我的四個孩子將在一個不是以他們的膚色，而是以他們的品格優劣來評判他們的國度里生活。
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color if their skin but by the content of their character.
我今天有一個夢想。
我夢想有一天，阿拉巴馬州能夠有所轉變，盡管該州州長現在仍然滿口異議，反對聯邦法令，但有著一日，那裡的黑人男孩和女孩將能夠與白人男孩和女孩情同骨肉，攜手並進。
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, 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.
我今天有一個夢想。
我夢想有一天，幽谷上升，高山下降，坎坷曲折之路成坦途，聖光披露，滿照人間。
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, 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.
這就是我們的希望。我懷著這種信念回到南方。有了這個信念，我們將能從絕望之嶺劈出一塊希望之石。有了這個信念，我們將能把這個國家刺耳的爭吵聲，改變成為一支洋溢手足之情的優美交響曲。有了這個信念，我們將能一起工作，一起祈禱，一起斗爭，一起坐牢，一起維護自由；因為我們知道，終有一天，我們是會自由的。
This is our hope. This is the faith that I 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 stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
在自由到來的那一天，上帝的所有兒女們將以新的含義高唱這支歌：「我的祖國，美麗的自由之鄉，我為您歌唱。您是父輩逝去的地方，您是最初移民的驕傲，讓自由之聲響徹每個山岡。」
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 pilgrims』 pride,From every mountainside
Let freedom ring.
如果美國要成為一個偉大的國家，這個夢想必須實現。讓自由的鍾聲從新罕布希爾州的巍峨峰巔響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從紐約州的崇山峻嶺響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從賓夕法尼亞州阿勒格尼山的頂峰響起！讓自由的鍾聲從科羅拉多州冰雪覆蓋的落磯山響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從加利福尼亞州蜿蜒的群峰響起來！不僅如此，還要讓自由的鍾聲從喬治亞州的石嶺響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從田納西州的瞭望山響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從密西西比州的每一座丘陵響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從每一片山坡響起來。
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. 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 snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slops of California!
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!
當我們讓自由鍾聲響起來，讓自由鍾聲從每一個大小村莊、每一個州和每一個城市響起來時，我們將能夠加速這一天的到來，那時，上帝的所有兒女，黑人和白人，猶太人和非猶太人，新教徒和天主教徒，都將手攜手，合唱一首古老的黑人靈歌：「終於自由啦！終於自由啦！感謝全能的上帝，我們終於自由啦！」
When we let 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, 「Free at last! free at last! thank God almighty, we are free at last!」
❷ 馬丁路德金的演講(我有一個夢想)的中心思想是什麼啊
主要中心思想是關於黑人民族平等，對種族平等的思考，在20世紀，黑人遭受不平等對待，主要圍繞黑人平等進行敘述。
1963年馬丁路德金與肯尼迪總統見面，要求通過新的民權法，給黑人以平等的權利，8月28日，抗議組織在華盛頓特區組織了一次二十五萬人的集會，爭取種族平等。馬丁·路德·金在林肯紀念館的台階上發表了著名演講《我有一個夢想》，標志著20世紀黑人民權運動進入高潮。
演講結束後各大報刊紛紛轉載，激勵著人們為爭取自由平等而不懈抗爭，馬丁路德金的話被刻在了紀念堂的台階上。
(2)馬丁路德金我有一個夢想演講稿擴展閱讀：
《我有一個夢想》使用大量比喻、排比，推波助瀾，增強了語言如大河奔流一般的氣勢。
前美國總統奧巴馬2013年8月28日站在馬丁·路德·金當年發表《我有一個夢想》演講的華盛頓林肯紀念堂前的台階上講話，以此紀念該演講發表50周年。
美國首位黑人總統奧巴馬在講話中談論「為工作和自由向華盛頓進軍」大遊行以來的半個世紀美國發生的變化，那次大遊行以亞特蘭大牧師、民權運動標志人物馬丁·路德·金的演講達到高潮。1963年，金面對25萬人發表演講，表達了自己對於美國白人和黑人擁有更加和睦關系的期望。
馬丁·路德·金是非裔的美國人，出生於美國喬治亞州亞特蘭大，是美國牧師、社會活動家、黑人民權運動領袖。1963年4月12日，馬丁·路德·金在阿拉巴馬州的伯明翰領導了大規模群眾示威遊行；8月28日 ，組織了爭取黑人工作機會和自由權的「華盛頓工作與自由遊行」。
1964年，馬丁·路德·金被授予諾貝爾和平獎。2006年12月，馬丁·路德·金被美國雜志《大西洋月刊》評為影響美國的100位人物第8名。
❸ 馬丁 路德 金 《我有一個夢想》演講稿全文 中文版 謝謝！
馬丁。路德金
I have a dream 我有一個夢想
一百年前，一位偉大的美國人簽署了解放黑奴宣言，今天我們就是在他的雕像前集會。這一庄嚴宣言猶如燈塔的光芒，給千百萬在那摧殘生命的不義之火中受煎熬的黑奴帶來了希望。它的到來猶如歡樂的黎明，結束了束縛黑人的漫漫長夜。
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 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 bad captivity.
然而一百年後的今天，黑人還沒有得到自由，一百年後的今天，在種族隔離的鐐銬和種族歧視的枷鎖下，黑人的生活備受壓榨。一百年後的今天，黑人仍生活在物質充裕的海洋中一個貧困的孤島上。一百年後的今天，黑人仍然萎縮在美國社會的角落裡，並且意識到自己是故土家園中的流亡者。今天我們在這里集會，就是要把這種駭人聽聞的情況公諸於眾。
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is 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 languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we』ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
我並非沒有注意到，參加今天集會的人中，有些受盡苦難和折磨，有些剛剛走出窄小的牢房，有些由於尋求自由，曾早居住地慘遭瘋狂迫害的打擊，並在警察暴行的旋風中搖搖欲墜。你們是人為痛苦的長期受難者。堅持下去吧，要堅決相信，忍受不應得的痛苦是一種贖罪。
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution 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.
讓我們回到密西西比去，回到阿拉巴馬去，回到南卡羅萊納去，回到喬治亞去，回到路易斯安那去，回到我們北方城市中的貧民區和少數民族居住區去，要心中有數，這種狀況是能夠也必將改變的。我們不要陷入絕望而不能自拔。
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 northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
朋友們，今天我對你們說，在此時此刻，我們雖然遭受種種困難和挫折，我仍然有一個夢想。這個夢是深深紮根於美國的夢想中的。
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
我夢想有一天，這個國家會站立起來，真正實現其信條的真諦：「我們認為這些真理是不言而喻的；人人生而平等。」
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live up to the true meaning of its creed: 「We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.」
我夢想有一天，在喬治亞的紅山上，昔日奴隸的兒子將能夠和昔日奴隸主的兒子坐在一起，共敘兄弟情誼。
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.
我夢想有一天，甚至連密西西比州這個正義匿跡，壓迫成風，如同沙漠般的地方，也將變成自由和正義的綠洲。
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.
我夢想有一天，我的四個孩子將在一個不是以他們的膚色，而是以他們的品格優劣來評判他們的國度里生活。
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color if their skin but by the content of their character.
我今天有一個夢想。
我夢想有一天，阿拉巴馬州能夠有所轉變，盡管該州州長現在仍然滿口異議，反對聯邦法令，但有著一日，那裡的黑人男孩和女孩將能夠與白人男孩和女孩情同骨肉，攜手並進。
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, 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.
我今天有一個夢想。
我夢想有一天，幽谷上升，高山下降，坎坷曲折之路成坦途，聖光披露，滿照人間。
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, 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.
這就是我們的希望。我懷著這種信念回到南方。有了這個信念，我們將能從絕望之嶺劈出一塊希望之石。有了這個信念，我們將能把這個國家刺耳的爭吵聲，改變成為一支洋溢手足之情的優美交響曲。有了這個信念，我們將能一起工作，一起祈禱，一起斗爭，一起坐牢，一起維護自由；因為我們知道，終有一天，我們是會自由的。
This is our hope. This is the faith that I 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 stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
在自由到來的那一天，上帝的所有兒女們將以新的含義高唱這支歌：「我的祖國，美麗的自由之鄉，我為您歌唱。您是父輩逝去的地方，您是最初移民的驕傲，讓自由之聲響徹每個山岡。」
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 pilgrims』 pride,From every mountainside
Let freedom ring.
如果美國要成為一個偉大的國家，這個夢想必須實現。讓自由的鍾聲從新罕布希爾州的巍峨峰巔響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從紐約州的崇山峻嶺響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從賓夕法尼亞州阿勒格尼山的頂峰響起！讓自由的鍾聲從科羅拉多州冰雪覆蓋的落磯山響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從加利福尼亞州蜿蜒的群峰響起來！不僅如此，還要讓自由的鍾聲從喬治亞州的石嶺響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從田納西州的瞭望山響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從密西西比州的每一座丘陵響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從每一片山坡響起來。
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. 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 snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slops of California!
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!
當我們讓自由鍾聲響起來，讓自由鍾聲從每一個大小村莊、每一個州和每一個城市響起來時，我們將能夠加速這一天的到來，那時，上帝的所有兒女，黑人和白人，猶太人和非猶太人，新教徒和天主教徒，都將手攜手，合唱一首古老的黑人靈歌：「終於自由啦！終於自由啦！感謝全能的上帝，我們終於自由啦！」
When we let 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, 「Free at last! free at last! thank God almighty, we are free at last!」
❹ 找一偉人的演講詞，美國人權領袖馬丁-路德-金的《我有一個夢想》最好是英漢雙解~！
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 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 their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is 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 languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. 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, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable 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 the Negro people a bad check, a check 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. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of graalism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro'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. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro 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.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. 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 a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro 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 great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution 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 northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face 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 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.
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.
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.
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" -- 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!
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."?
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I 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 stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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:
Free at last! free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
一百年前，一位偉大的美國人簽署了解放黑奴宣言，今天我們就是在他的雕像前集會。這一庄嚴宣言猶如燈塔的光芒，給千百萬在那摧殘生命的不義之火中受煎熬的黑奴帶來了希望。它之到來猶如歡樂的黎明，結束了束縛黑人的漫漫長夜。
然而一百年後的今天，我們必須正視黑人還沒有得到自由這一悲慘的事實。一百年後的今天，在種族隔離的鐐銬和種族歧視的枷鎖下，黑人的生活備受壓榨。一百年後的今天，黑人仍生活在物質充裕的海洋中一個窮困的孤島上。一百年後的今天，黑人仍然萎縮在美國社會的角落裡，並且意識到自己是故土家園中的流亡者。今天我們在這里集會，就是要把這種駭人聽聞的情況公諸於眾。
就某種意義而言，今天我們是為了要求兌現諾言而匯集到我們國家的首都來的。我們共和國的締造者草擬憲法和獨立宣言的氣壯山河的詞句時，曾向每一個美國人許下了諾言。他們承諾給予所有的人以生存、自由和追求幸福的不可剝奪的權利。
就有色公民而論，美國顯然沒有實踐她的諾言。美國沒有履行這項神聖的義務，只是給黑人開了一張空頭支票，支票上蓋著「資金不足」的戳子後便退了回來。但是我們不相信正義的銀行已經破產。我們不相信，在這個國家巨大的機會之庫里已沒有足夠的儲備。因此今天我們要求將支票兌現－－這張支票將給予我們寶貴的自由和正義的保障。
我們來到這個聖地也是為了提醒美國，現在是非常急迫的時刻。現在決非侈談冷靜下來或服用漸進主義的鎮靜劑的時候。現在是實現民主的諾言的時候。現在是從種族隔離的荒涼陰暗的深谷攀登種族平等的光明大道的時候。現在是向上帝所有的兒女開放機會之門的時候。現在是把我們的國家從種族不平等的流沙中拯救出來，置於兄弟情誼的盤石上的時候。
如果美國忽視時間的迫切性和低估黑人的決心，那麼，這對美國來說，將是致命傷。自由和平等的爽朗秋天如不到來，黑人義憤填膺的酷暑就不會過去。一九六三年並不意味著斗爭的結束，而是開始。有人希望，黑人只要消消氣就會滿足；如果國家安之若素，毫無反應，這些人必會大失所望的。黑人得不到公民的權利，美國就不可能有安寧或平靜。正義的光明的一天不到來，叛亂的旋風就將繼續動搖這個國家的基礎。
但是對於等候在正義之宮門口的心急如焚的人們，有些話我是必須說的。在爭取合法地位的過程中，我們不要採取錯誤的做法。我們不要為了滿足對自由的渴望而抱著敵對和仇恨之杯痛飲。我們斗爭時必須求遠舉止得體，紀律嚴明。我們不能容許我們的具有嶄新內容的抗議蛻變為暴力行動。我們要不斷地升華到以精神力量對付物質力量的崇高境界中去。
現在黑人社會充滿著了不起的新的戰斗精神，但是我們卻不能因此而不信任所有的白人。因為我們的許多白人兄弟已經認識到，他們的命運與我們的命運是緊密相連的，他們今天參加遊行集會就是明證。他們的自由與我們的自由是息息相關的。我們不能單獨行動。
當我們行動時，我們必須保證向前進。我們不能倒退。現在有人問熱心民權運動的人，「你們什麼時候才能滿足?」
只要黑人仍然遭受警察難以形容的野蠻迫害，我們就絕不會滿足。
只要我們在外奔波而疲乏的身軀不能在公路旁的汽車旅館和城裡的旅館找到住宿之所，我們就絕不會滿足。
只要黑人的基本活動范圍只是從少數民族聚居的小貧民區轉移到大貧民區，我們就絕不會滿足。
只要密西西比仍然有一個黑人不能參加選舉，只要紐約有一個黑人認為他投票無濟於事，我們就絕不會滿足。
不!我們現在並不滿足，我們將來也不滿足，除非正義和公正猶如江海之波濤，洶涌澎湃，滾滾而來。
我並非沒有注意到，參加今天集會的人中，有些受盡苦難和折磨；有些剛剛走出窄小的牢房；有些由於尋求自由，曾在居住地慘遭瘋狂迫害的打擊，並在警察暴行的旋風中搖搖欲墜。你們是人為痛苦的長期受難者。堅持下去吧，要堅決相信，忍受不應得的痛苦是一種贖罪。
讓我們回到密西西比去，回到阿拉巴馬去，回到南卡羅來納去，回到喬治亞去，回到路易斯安那去，回到我們北方城市中的貧民區和少數民族居住區去，要心中有數，這種狀況是能夠也必將改變的。我們不要陷入絕望而不克自拔。
朋友們，今天我對你們說，在此時此刻，我們雖然遭受種種困難和挫折，我仍然有一個夢想。這個夢想是深深紮根於美國的夢想中的。
我夢想有一天，這個國家會站立起來，真正實現其信條的真諦：「我們認為這些真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等。」
我夢想有一天，在喬治亞的紅山上，昔日奴隸的兒子將能夠和昔日奴隸主的兒子坐在一起，共敘兄弟情誼。
我夢想有一天，甚至連密西西比州這個正義匿跡，壓迫成風，如同沙漠般的地方，也將變成自由和正義的綠洲。
我夢想有一天，我的四個孩子將在一個不是以他們的膚色，而是以他們的品格優劣來評價他們的國度里生活。
我今天有一個夢想。
我夢想有一天，亞拉巴馬州能夠有所轉變，盡管該州州長現在仍然滿口異議，反對聯邦法令，但有朝一日，那裡的黑人男孩和女孩將能與白人男孩和女孩情同骨肉，攜手並進。
我今天有一個夢想。
我夢想有一天，幽谷上升，高山下降，坎坷曲折之路成坦途，聖光披露，滿照人間。
這就是我們的希望。我懷著這種信念回到南方。有了這個信念，我們將能從絕望之嶙劈出一塊希望之石。有了這個信念，我們將能把這個國家刺耳爭吵的聲，改變成為一支洋溢手足之情的優美交響曲。
有了這個信念，我們將能一起工作，一起祈禱，一起斗爭，一起坐牢，一起維護自由；因為我們知道，終有一天，我們是會自由的。
在自由到來的那一天，上帝的所有兒女們將以新的含義高唱這支歌：「我的祖國，美麗的自由之鄉，我為您歌唱。您是父輩逝去的地方，您是最初移民的驕傲，讓自由之聲響徹每個山崗。」
如果美國要成為一個偉大的國家，這個夢想必須實現。讓自由之聲從新罕布希爾州的巍峨峰巔響起來!讓自由之聲從紐約州的崇山峻嶺響起來？讓自由之聲從賓夕法尼亞州阿勒格尼山的頂峰響起來!
讓自由之聲從科羅拉多州冰雪覆蓋的洛基山響起來!讓自由之聲從加利福尼亞州蜿蜒的群峰響起來？不僅如此，還要讓自由之聲從喬治亞州的石嶙響起來？讓自由之聲從田納西州的瞭望山響起來!
讓自由之聲從密西西比的每一座丘陵響起來？讓自由之聲從每一片山坡響起來。
當我們讓自由之聲響起來，讓自由之聲從每一個大小村莊、每一個州和每一個城市響起來時，我們將能夠加速這一天的到來，那時，上帝的所有兒女，黑人和白人，猶太教徒和非猶太教徒，耶穌教徒和天主教徒，都將手攜手，合唱一首古老的黑人靈歌：「終於自由啦!終於自由啦!感謝全能的上帝，我們終於自由啦!」
❺ 馬丁路德金《我有一個夢想》演講稿中有哪些隱喻
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❻ 求一篇關於介紹馬丁路德金的《我有一個夢想》的英語演講稿，200字左右
I say to you today,my friends.
so even though we face 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 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.
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.
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.
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" -- 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!
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.
This is our hope,and this is the faith that I 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 stand up for freedom together,knowing that we will be free one day.
今天,我對你們說,我的朋友們,盡管此時的困難與挫折,我們仍然有個夢,這是深深紮根於美國夢中的夢.
我有一個夢：有一天,這個國家將站起來,並實現它的信條的真正含義：「我們認為這些真理是不言而喻的,即所有的人都生來平等.」
我有一個夢：有一天,在喬治亞州的紅色山丘上,從前奴隸的子孫們和從前奴隸主的子孫們將能像兄弟般地坐在同一桌旁.
我有一個夢：有一天,甚至密西西比州,一個有著不公正和壓迫的熱浪襲人的荒漠之州,將改造成自由和公正的綠洲.
我有一個夢：我的4個小孩將有一天生活在一個國度里,在那裡,人們不是從他們的膚色,而是從他們的品格來評價他們.
今天我有一個夢想：
我有一個夢：有一天,阿拉巴馬州將變成這樣一個地方,那裡黑人小男孩、小女孩可以和白人小男孩、小女孩,像兄弟姐妹一樣手牽手並肩而行.
今天我有一個夢想.
我有一個夢：有一天,每一個峽谷將升高,每一座山丘和高峰被削低,崎嶇粗糙的地方改造成平原,彎彎曲曲的地方變得筆直,上帝的榮耀得以展露,全人類都將舉目共睹.
這是我們的希望,這是信念,帶著這個信念我回到南方,懷著這個信念我們將能從絕望之山中開采出一塊希望之石.懷著這個信念,我們將能把我們國家的刺耳的不和音,轉變成一曲優美動聽的兄弟情誼交響曲.懷著這個信念,我們將能工作在一起,祈禱在一起,奮斗在一起,一起赴監獄,一起為自由而挺住.因為我們知道,有一天我們將獲自由.
❼ 馬丁路德金的演講稿里的，用「我有一個夢想」寫四句關於中國夢的排比句
我夢想有一天，這個國家會真正實現平等，無論有沒有錢，只要想，都有接受平專等教育屬的條件。
我夢想有一天，在天安門，億萬富翁的兒子和農民，工人的兒子能夠坐在一起，互相平等對待對方。
我夢想有一天，再也不會有貧困山區這個詞，有的是富饒，風景優美，宜人的旅遊村落。
我夢想有一天，家庭成員們經常聚在一起，中國再也沒有留守兒童，留守婦女，留守老人。
演講稿:
我夢想有一天，這個國家會站立起來，真正實現其信條的真諦：「我們認為真理是不言而喻，人人生而平等。」
我夢想有一天，在喬治亞的紅山上，昔日奴隸的兒子將能夠和昔日奴隸主的兒子坐在一起，共敘兄弟情誼。
我夢想有一天，甚至連密西西比州這個正義匿跡，壓迫成風，如同沙漠般的地方，也將變成自由和正義的綠洲。
我夢想有一天，我的四個孩子將在一個不是以他們的膚色，而是以他們的品格優劣來評價他們的國度里生活。
❽ 我想要一篇 馬丁路德金 的《我有一個夢想》全文的中文演講稿，翻譯要准確！
Martin Luther King, Jr.
馬丁。路德金
I have a dream 我有一個夢想
一百年前，一位偉大的美國人簽署了解放黑奴宣言，今天我們就是在他的雕像前集會。這一庄嚴宣言猶如燈塔的光芒，給千百萬在那摧殘生命的不義之火中受煎熬的黑奴帶來了希望。它的到來猶如歡樂的黎明，結束了束縛黑人的漫漫長夜。
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 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 bad captivity.
然而一百年後的今天，黑人還沒有得到自由，一百年後的今天，在種族隔離的鐐銬和種族歧視的枷鎖下，黑人的生活備受壓榨。一百年後的今天，黑人仍生活在物質充裕的海洋中一個貧困的孤島上。一百年後的今天，黑人仍然萎縮在美國社會的角落裡，並且意識到自己是故土家園中的流亡者。今天我們在這里集會，就是要把這種駭人聽聞的情況公諸於眾。
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is 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 languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we』ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
我並非沒有注意到，參加今天集會的人中，有些受盡苦難和折磨，有些剛剛走出窄小的牢房，有些由於尋求自由，曾早居住地慘遭瘋狂迫害的打擊，並在警察暴行的旋風中搖搖欲墜。你們是人為痛苦的長期受難者。堅持下去吧，要堅決相信，忍受不應得的痛苦是一種贖罪。
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution 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.
讓我們回到密西西比去，回到阿拉巴馬去，回到南卡羅萊納去，回到喬治亞去，回到路易斯安那去，回到我們北方城市中的貧民區和少數民族居住區去，要心中有數，這種狀況是能夠也必將改變的。我們不要陷入絕望而不能自拔。
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 northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
朋友們，今天我對你們說，在此時此刻，我們雖然遭受種種困難和挫折，我仍然有一個夢想。這個夢是深深紮根於美國的夢想中的。
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
我夢想有一天，這個國家會站立起來，真正實現其信條的真諦：「我們認為這些真理是不言而喻的；人人生而平等。」
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live up to the true meaning of its creed: 「We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.」
我夢想有一天，在喬治亞的紅山上，昔日奴隸的兒子將能夠和昔日奴隸主的兒子坐在一起，共敘兄弟情誼。
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.
我夢想有一天，甚至連密西西比州這個正義匿跡，壓迫成風，如同沙漠般的地方，也將變成自由和正義的綠洲。
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.
我夢想有一天，我的四個孩子將在一個不是以他們的膚色，而是以他們的品格優劣來評判他們的國度里生活。
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color if their skin but by the content of their character.
我今天有一個夢想。
我夢想有一天，阿拉巴馬州能夠有所轉變，盡管該州州長現在仍然滿口異議，反對聯邦法令，但有著一日，那裡的黑人男孩和女孩將能夠與白人男孩和女孩情同骨肉，攜手並進。
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, 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.
我今天有一個夢想。
我夢想有一天，幽谷上升，高山下降，坎坷曲折之路成坦途，聖光披露，滿照人間。
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, 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.
這就是我們的希望。我懷著這種信念回到南方。有了這個信念，我們將能從絕望之嶺劈出一塊希望之石。有了這個信念，我們將能把這個國家刺耳的爭吵聲，改變成為一支洋溢手足之情的優美交響曲。有了這個信念，我們將能一起工作，一起祈禱，一起斗爭，一起坐牢，一起維護自由；因為我們知道，終有一天，我們是會自由的。
This is our hope. This is the faith that I 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 stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
在自由到來的那一天，上帝的所有兒女們將以新的含義高唱這支歌：「我的祖國，美麗的自由之鄉，我為您歌唱。您是父輩逝去的地方，您是最初移民的驕傲，讓自由之聲響徹每個山岡。」
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 pilgrims』 pride,From every mountainside
Let freedom ring.
如果美國要成為一個偉大的國家，這個夢想必須實現。讓自由的鍾聲從新罕布希爾州的巍峨峰巔響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從紐約州的崇山峻嶺響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從賓夕法尼亞州阿勒格尼山的頂峰響起！讓自由的鍾聲從科羅拉多州冰雪覆蓋的落磯山響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從加利福尼亞州蜿蜒的群峰響起來！不僅如此，還要讓自由的鍾聲從喬治亞州的石嶺響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從田納西州的瞭望山響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從密西西比州的每一座丘陵響起來！讓自由的鍾聲從每一片山坡響起來。
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. 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 snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slops of California!
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!
當我們讓自由鍾聲響起來，讓自由鍾聲從每一個大小村莊、每一個州和每一個城市響起來時，我們將能夠加速這一天的到來，那時，上帝的所有兒女，黑人和白人，猶太人和非猶太人，新教徒和天主教徒，都將手攜手，合唱一首古老的黑人靈歌：「終於自由啦！終於自由啦！感謝全能的上帝，我們終於自由啦！」
When we let 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, 「Free at last! free at last! thank God almighty, we are free at last!」
❾ 馬丁路德金《我有一個夢想》的經典部分
朋友們，今天我對你們說，在此時此刻，我們雖然遭受種種困難和挫折，我仍然有一個夢想。這個夢想是深深紮根於美國的夢想中的。
我夢想有一天，這個國家將會站立起來，實現其信條的真諦：「我們認為這些真理不言而喻：人人生而平等。」
我夢想有一天，在喬治亞州的紅色山崗上，昔日奴隸的兒子能夠同昔日奴隸主的兒子同席而坐，共敘手足情誼。
我夢想有一天，甚至連密西西比州這個正義匿跡、壓迫成風的沙漠般的地方，也將變成自由和正義的綠洲。
我夢想有一天，我的四個孩子將生活在一個不是以他們的膚色，而是以品格優劣來評價他們的國度里生活。
我夢想有一天，亞拉巴馬州會有所改變——盡管該州州長現在仍滔滔不絕地說什麼要對聯邦法令提出異議和拒絕執行——在那裡，黑人兒童能夠和白人兒童兄弟姐妹般地攜手並行。
我今天有一個夢想
我夢想有一天，幽谷上升，高山下降，坎坷曲折之路成坦途，聖光披露，普照人間。
這是我們的希望。我懷著這種信念回到南方。有了這個信念，我們就能絕望之山開采出希望之石。有了這個信念，我們就能把這個國家的嘈雜刺耳的爭吵聲，變為充滿手足之情的悅耳交響曲。有了這個信念，我們就能一同工作，一同祈禱，一同斗爭，一同入獄，一同維護自由，因為我們知道，我們終有一天會獲得自由。
從到了這一天，上帝的所有孩子都能以新的含義高唱這首歌：
我的祖國，
可愛的自由之邦，
我為您歌唱。
這是我祖先終老的地方，
這是早期移民自豪的地方，
讓自由之聲，
響徹每一座山崗。
如果美國要成為偉大的國家，這一點必須實現。因此，讓自由之聲響徹新罕布希爾州的巍峨高峰！
讓自由之聲響徹紐約州的崇山峻嶺！
讓自由之聲響徹賓夕法尼亞州的阿勒格尼高峰！
讓自由之聲響徹科羅拉多州冰雪皚皚的洛基山！
讓自由之聲響徹加利福尼亞州的婀娜群峰！
不，不僅如此；讓自由之聲響徹喬治亞州的石山！
讓自由之聲響徹田納西州的望山！
讓自由之聲響徹密西西比州的一座座山峰，一個個土丘！
讓自由之聲響徹每一個山崗！
當我們讓自由之聲轟響，當我們讓自由之聲響徹每一個大村小庄，每一個州府城鎮，我們就能加速這一天的到來。那時，上帝的所有孩子，黑人和白人，猶太教徒和非猶太教徒，耶穌教徒和天主教徒，將能攜手同唱那首古老的黑人靈歌：「終於自由了！終於自由了！感謝全能的上帝，我們終於自由了！」
❿ 馬丁路德金《我有一個夢想》的演說在當時有什麼現實意義
推動黑人民族平等，加快實現理想的步伐；作者的夢在如今並沒有圓，因為美國雖然取消了種族歧視，但種族歧視事件仍時常發生。
1963年馬丁路德金與肯尼迪總統見面，要求通過新的民權法，給黑人以平等的權利，8月28日，抗議組織在華盛頓特區組織了一次二十五萬人的集會，爭取種族平等。馬丁·路德·金在林肯紀念館的台階上發表了著名演講《我有一個夢想》，標志著20世紀黑人民權運動進入高潮。
(10)馬丁路德金我有一個夢想演講稿擴展閱讀
馬丁路德金他是美國黑人民權運動領袖，浸禮會教堂牧師，非暴力主義者。1929年1月15日出生於喬治亞州亞特蘭大市一黑人家庭，父親和祖父都是浸禮會的傳教士。早年就讀於亞特蘭大的莫爾豪斯學院社會學系，19歲畢業後加入浸禮教會。
1951年和1954年又先後畢業於賓夕法尼亞州切斯特市的克羅澤神學院和波士頓大學。1954年在蒙哥馬利城的德克斯特大道浸禮會教堂任職。1955年獲得博士學位。此後他積極參加和領導美國黑人爭取平等權利的斗爭，一生三次被捕，三次被判刑。
1956年他領導蒙哥馬利改進協會，組織黑人進行抵制公共汽車歧視黑人的斗爭。全城5萬黑人拒乘公共汽車385天，迫使最高法院宣布在交通工具上實施種族隔離為非法。1957年幫助建立黑人牧師組織—南方基督教領袖大會，並任該會首任主席。
1963年8月率領25萬黑人向華盛頓林肯紀念堂「自由進軍」，1964年獲諾貝爾和平獎。他極具演說才能，並著有《闊步走向自由》《我們為何不能再等待》等著作。其思想對60年代美國黑人民權運動產生了重大影響。