1. Struggle on
My brothers and sisters.I want you to know that the struggle that we will face
through the remaining period of the eighties and on through the twenty-first century will not be an easy one. It is fraught with pitfalls and plagued with setbacks, but we as a people have developed a resiliency
which has made it possible for us to survive slavery and vicious discrimination.
We must never tire or become frustrated by difficulties.
We must transform stumbling blocks into stepping stones and march on with the determination
that we will make America a better nation…
Struggle on: we want more schoolhouses and less jail houses,
Struggle on: We want more books and less weapons,
Struggle on: We want more learning and less vice,
Struggle on: We want more employment and less crime in our communities
Struggle on: We want more justice and less vengeance,
Struggle on: We want more of our children to graduate from high school able to read and write,
not more on unemployment lines.
Struggle on: We want more statesmen and less politicians.
Struggle on: We want more workers in our ranks and less cynics,
Struggle on: We want more hope and less dope,
Struggle on: We want more faith and less despair…
坚持斗争
兄弟姐妹们,我希望你们明白,我们在八十年代剩余的时间里乃至整个二十一世纪所要面临的都将不是一场轻松的斗争,这其中充满了危险和曲折。但是我们民族从奴隶制和万恶歧视下幸存至今,有着顽强的生命力。 我们要永远不知疲惫,在困难面前不灰心丧气。
我们要把绊脚石变成脚踏板,带着把美国变得更美好的决心前进
坚持斗争,我们要多一些校舍,少一些监狱
坚持斗争,我们要多一些书籍,少一些武器
坚持斗争,我们要多一些知识,少一些罪恶
坚持斗争,我们要多一些工作,社区里少一些犯罪
坚持斗争,我们要多一些正义,少一些报复
坚持斗争,我们要多的孩子中学毕业就能读书写字,而不是更多的人加入失业大军
坚持斗争,我们要多一些国务活动家,少一些政客
坚持斗争,我们要多一些辛勤劳动者,少一些玩世不恭的人
坚持斗争,我们要多一些希望,少一些麻木
坚持斗争,我们要多一些信心,少一些绝望
2. Why are You Laughing?
Thus laughter gradually became established as a capacity among virtually all human beings.
In addition, laughter’s infectious quality helped distribute it as a characteristic common to all
mankind. Laughter was advantageous; therefore it survived.Everyone likes a good laughter;
he brings good cheer with him wherever he goes,the very thought of him makes life more bearable.
Even today our most highly paid entertainers are not tragedians but comedians.
Laughter is infectious, and most of us go out of our way to acquire the infection.
We cannot think that it was otherwise in the earlier days of man’s evolution,
and if that was indeed so, then it would follow that the capacity to laugh would tend to become increasingly distributed as a trait common to all men.
In society, laughter became a characteristic that served to “humanized” men,
because it is essentially a social phenomenon,
largely controlled by the civilization in which it takes place.
The times change, and the situations about which laughter is acceptable change correspondingly.