○  约翰逊演讲稿：We Shall Overcome  ○

　　林登·贝恩斯·约翰逊 (Lyndon Baines Johnson) 出生于得克萨斯州斯通威尔。1930年毕业于该州圣马科斯西南师范学院，1935年毕业于乔治顿大学法律学院。1930年至1932年在休斯敦任教。

　　1935年至1937年任全国青年总署得克萨斯州公署署长。1937年国会补缺选举中当选为众议员，并任众议院海军委员会委员。1941年至1942年在海军服役。1948年当选为参议员。1951年成为参议院民主党副领袖。1953年起任参议院民主党多数派领袖，兼任参议院军事委员会、财政委员会、拨款委员会等要职。1959年至1960年任参议院航空和空间科学委员会首任主席。1956年争取民主党总统候选人提名失败。1960年与肯尼迪竞争民主党总统候选人提名失败，接受肯尼迪提名他为副总统的建议。1961年至1963年任副总统。1963年11月22日肯尼迪总统遇刺身亡后继任总统。1965年连任总统。1969年1月退休。1980年被授予总统自由勋章。著有回忆录《高瞻远瞩》。1973年1月22日在得克萨斯的圣安东尼奥因心脏病去世。

　　We Shall Overcome

Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the Congress:

　　I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy. I urge every member of both parties, Americans of all religions and of all colors, from every section of this country, to join me in that cause.

　　At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama. There, long-suffering men and women peacefully protested the denial of their rights as Americans. Many were brutally assaulted. One good man, a man of God, was killed.

　　There is no cause for pride in what has happened in Selma. There is no cause for self-satisfaction in the long denial of equal rights of millions of Americans. But there is cause for hope and for faith in our democracy in what is happening here tonight. For the cries of pain and the hymns and protests of oppressed people have summoned into convocation all the majesty of this great government -- the government of the greatest nation on earth. Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man.

　　In our time we have come to live with the moments of great crisis. Our lives have been marked with debate about great issues -- issues of war and peac

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