今天早晨，肯尼迪的一篇演讲教会我的事。

早起，会有很多收获。

比如路边的停车位，新鲜的早点，别人还不知道的秘密，灵活的脑瓜子。葵总出现之后，我起的越来越早。于是生活的密度越来越大，时间开出了玫瑰，每一秒都让我非常珍惜。

今天早晨听到一段演讲，让我非常动容，忍不住分享给大家。

肯尼迪在马丁路德金被刺之后，肯尼迪发表了一段简短的演讲。

当时，肯尼迪只有在下飞机前的一小段时间准备，他甚至是站在卡车上的完成的这段临时演讲。如果没有这段演讲，黑人于白人之间冲突将不可收拾，这段的演讲力挽狂澜，也为肯尼迪带来了极高的声誉和民众拥护。

看完这段所谓的“即兴演讲”就会明白，任何时候，你都必须做好充足的准备，迎接并抓住属于自己的时刻。

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

女士们先生们，

I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening, because I have some -- some very sad news for all of you -- Could you lower those signs, please? -- I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world; and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.

今晚我只想对你们讲几分钟，因为我知道了某个令你们所有人非常悲伤的消息，而且，我认为，它也是个令我们所有的公民伙伴，以及令全世界热爱和平的人们非常悲伤的消息。这个消息是，马丁.路德.金今晚在得克萨斯的孟菲斯遭遇枪击而被杀害。

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black -- considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible -- you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.

马丁.路德.金把他的生命献给了在人类伙伴之间的友爱和正义。他死在对这一成就的促进中。在这艰难的一天，在这个令美国艰难的时刻，可能很适合去追问我 们是个什么样的国家，以及我们想要向什么样的方向前进。对于作为黑人的你们——考虑那些对此负责白人的明显证据——你们可能填满了苦涩，填满了敌意，以及复仇的愿望。

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization -- black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion, and love.

我们可能会向着那样一个国家的方向前进，以更加两极化的形式——黑人拥簇黑人，白人拥簇白人，彼此填满敌意。或者我们能够努力，像马丁.路德.金所做的，去理解，去领会，并取代那种暴力，那种在我们的土地上散布的流血的污点，通过一种对于理解、同情以及友爱的努力。

For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill with -- be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.

对于那些作为黑人的你们，而且试图填满——填满对这样一个行为的不公正的敌意和误解，反对所有白人，我只会说我在自己的内心深处也能感受到同样的情感。在我的家庭中曾有一位成员被杀害，而他是被一位白人所杀害。

But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.

但在美国，我们必须努力。我们必须努力理解，去获得超越，或超越这些相当艰难的时刻。

My favorite poem, my -- my favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote:

我最喜欢的诗歌。我的——我最爱的诗人是埃斯库罗斯。他有一次写道：

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget

即使在我们的睡梦中，痛也不能遗忘

falls drop by drop upon the heart,

点点滴滴滑落到心头

until, in our own despair,

直到，在我们的绝望中

against our will,

有违我们的意愿

comes wisdom

智慧却降临

through the awful grace of God.

经由神的威严优雅

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.

在美国，我们所需要的不是分裂；我们所需要的不是敌意；我们所需要的不是暴力以及违背法律，而是友爱，智慧，和彼此间的同情，以及对于那些在我们的国家中仍承受痛苦的人的一种正义感，无论他们是不是白人或者是不是黑人。

So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King -- yeah, it's true -- but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love -- a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke.

因此今晚我请求你们回家，为马丁.路德.金的家庭祈祷——是的，确实如此——但更重要的是为我们所有人所爱的，我们所拥有的这个国家祈祷——为我说过的理解和同情而祈祷。

We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past, but we -- and we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.

在这个国家我们能够做得好。我们将会遇到艰难时刻。我们已经在过去遇到艰难时刻，但我们——而且我们将会在未来遇到艰难时刻。这不会是暴力的结束；这不会是违背法律的结束；并且这不会是无序状况的结束。

But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.

但在这个国家，绝大多数白人和绝大多数黑人想要共同生活在一起，想要改善我们人生的品质，并且想要在我们的土地上所遵循的适用于所有人的正义。

And let's dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.

让我们致力于希腊人在很多很多年前就曾写下的内容：驯服人的野蛮并创造这个世界的温雅生活。让我们把自己奉献于那种生活，并为我们的国家和我们的人民祈祷。

Thank you very much.

非常感谢你们。