“奴隶是什么是7月4日？”弗雷德里克迪克拉斯的演讲成绩单

Frederick Douglass: (00:26.)
伙伴公民，原谅我，让我问，为什么我今天打电话在这里发言？我或那些我代表与你的国家独立有什么关系。是政治自由和自然司法的伟大原则，体现在美国独立宣言的宣告延伸给我们？我所以，我呼吁将我们的谦虚发出给国家改变，并承认福利，并表达虔诚的感激，这对你的独立造成了美国的祝福？对上帝来说，既是你的缘故和我们的缘故，可以如此肯定地回到这些问题。

Frederick Douglass: (01:08)
那么我的任务会很轻，我的负担容易和令人愉快吗？对于谁来说，这么寒冷，一个国家同情不能温暖他，他如此崇拜它，而且对感激的索赔是不愉快的承认这种无价的福利？谁如此渴望和自私，不会让他的声音膨胀一个国家的禧年的幻影jahs时，当奴役的链已经从他的四肢撕裂？我不是那个男人。在这样的情况下，愚蠢可能会嘲笑。瘸腿的人作为一颗心跳，但这不是这种情况。我用我们之间的悲伤差距感。我不包括在这个辉煌的周年纪念日的宫殿里。您的高度只揭示了我们之间的无法估量的距离。您今日快乐的祝福并不常见。 The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me.

The sunlight that brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This 4th of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice. I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of Liberty and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems were inhuman mockery in sacrilegious irony. Do you mean citizens to mock me by asking me to speak today? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation Babylon, whose crimes towering up to heaven with thrown down by the breadth of the almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin.

Fellow citizens, above your national tumultuous joy I hear the mournful wail of millions whose chains heavy and grievous yesterday are today rendered more intolerable by the jubilant shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, may my right hand forget her cunning and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs and to chime in with the popular theme would be treason most sacrilegious and shocking and would make me a reproach before God and the world.

然后，我的主题，同胞，是美国奴隶制。我将看到这一天，它是从奴隶的观点来看的流行特征。站在这里与美国邦格识别出来，让他的错误矿井。我毫不犹豫地宣布我的所有灵魂，这个国家的性格和行为从未对我看过比赛，而不是7月4日。无论我们是否转向过去的宣言或现在的职业，国家的行为似乎同样可怕和升级。

美国对过去是虚假的，对现在的虚假是假的，并且庄严地绑定了对未来的虚假。在这个场合与上帝和粉碎和流血的奴隶站在这种场合，我将以人类的名义，这是以自由的名义愤怒，这是以宪法和圣经的名义煽动，这被忽视和践踏敢于呼叫和质疑并谴责所有重点我可以命令一切努力实现奴隶制，这是美国的伟大罪恶和羞耻。我不会偶然。我不会借口。我将使用我可以命令的最灵敏度的语言。然而，不是一个词应该逃避我，任何判决都没有被偏见或者不是心灵蒙蔽的人，奴隶主不能承认是正确的。

But I fancy, I hear some of my audience say it is just in this circumstance that you and your brother abolitionists fail to make a favorable impression upon the public mind. Would you argue more and denounce less? Would you persuade more and rebuke less? Your cause would be much more likely to succeed. But I admit, where all is plain, there is nothing to be argued. What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light? Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already. Nobody doubts it. The slave holders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government. They acknowledge it when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave. There are 72 crimes in the state of Virginia, which if committed by a black man, no matter how ignorant he be, subject him to the punishment of death, while only two of these same crimes will subject a white man to like punishment.

What is this but the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual and responsible being? The manhood of the slave is conceded. It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read and write. When you can point to any such laws in reference to the beasts of the field, then I may consent to argue the manhood of the slave. When the dogs in your street, when the fowls of the air, when the cattle on your hills, when the fish of the sea and the reptiles that crawl shall be unable to distinguish the slave from a brute, then I will argue with you that the slave is a man.

对于现在，它足以确认黑人比赛的平等男子气概。如果我们正在耕作，种植和收获，使用各种机械工具，建造桥梁，建筑船，在黄铜金属，铁，铜，银和金属中工作，虽然我们正在阅读，撰写和加密作为职员，商人和秘书，我们在美国律师，医生，部长，诗人，作者，编辑，讲师和教师中，我们从事所有企业，其他人共同，挖金加利福尼亚州，捕获太平洋饲养绵羊和牛山坡上的鲸鱼，生活，移动，表演，思考，种植，生活在家庭，妻子和儿童，以及最重要的是忏悔和崇拜基督徒的上帝，希望希望在坟墓之外的生活和不朽。

我们被要求证明我们是男人。你会让我争辩说，男人有权享受自由，他是他身体的合法拥有者吗？你已经宣布了它。我必须争辩奴隶制的违法行为吗？这是共和党人的问题吗？它是否通过逻辑和论证规则来解决？是一个问题，难以涉及令人疑问地应用正义的原则，难以理解吗？今天应该如何在美国人的存在下看看和细分，讨论男人有自然的自由权利，相对且积极地，消极和肯定地说出来？这样做会让自己荒谬，并为你的理解提供侮辱。天堂的天堂下面没有一个人，谁不知道奴隶制对他来说是错误的。

什么？我要争辩说，让男人的野蛮人是错误的，让他们夺走他们的自由，没有工资，让他们对他们的关系无知，用棍子击败他们，剥夺他们的肉体睫毛，用离子加载肢体，用狗捕杀他们，卖掉他们在拍卖，落后他们的家人，敲掉他们的牙齿，燃烧他们的肉体，将他们陷入顺从并提交给他们的大师，提交给他们的主人我必须争辩说，由此有血液标记的系统并染色污染是错误的吗？不我不会。我的时间和力量更好就业，而不是这些论点意味着。那么仍有待争议？这是奴隶制不是神圣的，上帝没有建立它，我们的神性医生误认为是错误的？思想中有亵渎神灵。这是一种不人道的，不可能是神圣的。 Who can reason on such a proposition? They, that can, may. I cannot. The time for such argument is past.

在这样的时候，需要烧焦的讽刺不令人信服的论点。哦，有我，能力，我可以到达国家的耳朵，我今天会倾吐咬嘲笑的火热蒸汽，爆破责备，炎热的讽刺和严厉的谴责。因为它不是需要的，但是火灾。它不是温柔的淋浴，但雷声。我们需要风暴。必须加快国家的感觉。而且国家的良知必须被激起。必须惊吓各国的适当性。必须暴露国家的虚伪，必须谴责上帝和男人的罪行。美国奴隶是什么是7月4日？ I answer: a day that reveals to him more than all other days of 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 shouts of Liberty and equality, hallow mocked, your prayers and hymns your sermons and Thanksgivings with all your religious parade in solemnity are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, a thin veil to cover up crimes, which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth, guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour. Go 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.

“奴隶是什么是7月4日？”弗雷德里克迪克拉斯的演讲成绩单

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