○  马丁·路德·金： Ive Been to the Mountaintop  ○

　　Martin Luther King, Jr

　　"I've Been to the Mountaintop"

　　delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

　　这是马丁.路德.金博士的最后一次演讲，次日他被暗杀。在他发表这篇著名的演讲的时候，他预感到了自己的命运，因为在他来孟菲斯之前已经收到了各种各样的死亡恐吓。但是他用行动作出了回答。他说不要问我帮了别人自己会有什么后果，而要问“如果我不帮助别人，别人会有什么后果”。

　　演讲的题目出自《圣经》以色列人出埃及的典故，摩西带领以色列人摆脱埃及法老的奴役，去往哪上帝应许的“流奶与蜜之地”–迦南。摩西被上帝带到山顶上，看到了那“应许之地”(promise land)，但他却被告知，他自己不能到达。

　　马丁.路德.金说“像其他人一样，我也想活的长一些。但是现在我不在乎这一点，我只想尊从上帝的意愿，他已经允许我站在山顶，看到了那应许之地，我也许不能和你们一起到达那里，但是今晚我要告诉大家，人民一定会到哪里!”

　　马丁.路德.金是一名伟大的基督徒，传道者。他坚持“非暴力”斗争的原则，他用行动实践了耶稣基督“以善胜恶”的伟大真理。金博士倒下了，爱–看起来是似乎是那么软弱，但是40年过去了，是爱，还是“子弹”(马尔科姆.X的著名演讲《子弹还是选票》)获得了胜利?

　　这篇演讲中，金博士充满了实践神的国度的热情，他说“我现在什么也不怕，因为我的双眼已经见证了神的荣耀!”。我想起了爱因斯坦读甘地传后的感慨：后代的子孙，很难想象，在我们这个时代，曾经走过这么一位血肉之躯。

　　Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It's always good to have your closest friend and associate to say something good about you. And Ralph Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the world. I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow.

　　Something is happening in Memphis; something is happening in our world. And you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" I would take my mental flight by Egypt and I would watch God's children in their magnificent trek from the dark dungeons of Egypt through, or rather across the Red Sea, through the wildern

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