2023年林登贝恩斯约翰逊：Addre to a Joint Seion of Congre Lyndon Baines Johnson Addre to a Joint Seion of Congre on Voting Legislation We Shall Overcome delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.演讲者简介：林登贝恩斯约翰逊(英语：Lyndon Baines Johnson，1908年8月27日-1973年1月22日)，美国第36任总统和第35任副总统，也曾是国会参议员。他于1908年8月27日生于得克萨斯州基利斯比县的石墙。约翰逊家族曾参与了约翰逊城的建设。约翰逊是民主党人，从1937年-1949年，曾担任美国得克萨斯州的代表，1937年-1949年，担任美国参议员，包括六位美国参议院政党领袖，两位参议院少数党领袖和两位参议院多数优势。竞选失败后，在1960年由民主党提名约翰逊由约翰肯尼迪要求他是在1960年美国总统选举的竞选伙伴。在肯尼迪遇刺案之后，约翰逊继续接任约翰肯尼迪总统的职务，在1964年美国总统选举中轻松地获选总统。民主党大力支持约翰逊，并担任主席，负责设计包括法律维护民权、公开广播、医疗保障、医疗补助、环境保护、对教育的援助和他的著名的“向贫穷开战”，他为他跋扈的个性和“约翰逊治疗是显著的”的标题，他控制有权势的政客，以推动立法。同时，他让美国积极介入越南战争，随着战争的拖延，约翰逊总统的声望持续下降。尽管其外交政策遭受失败，但是因为他的国内政策成绩斐然，约翰逊在一些史学家对历届总统的评价中依然获得高排名。 Mr.Speaker, Mr.president, Members of the Congre: 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 mans 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 aaulted.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 oppreed people have summoned into convocation all the majesty of this great government - the government of the greatest nation on earth.Our miion 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 iues - iues of war and peace, iues of prosperity and depreion.But rarely in any time does an iue lay bare the secret heart of America itself.Rarely are we met with a challenge, not to our growth or abundance, or our welfare or our security, but rather to the values, and the purposes, and the meaning of our beloved nation. The iue of equal rights for American Negroes is such an iue. And should we defeat every enemy, and should we double our wealth and conquer the stars, and still be unequal to this iue, then we will have failed as a people and as a nation.For with a country as with a person, What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? There is no Negro problem.There is no Southern problem.There is no Northern problem.There is only an American problem.And we are met here tonight as Americans - not as Democrats or Republicans.We are met here as Americans to solve that problem. This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose.The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, North and South: All men are created equal, government by consent of the governed, give me liberty or give me death. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.In their name Americans have fought and died for two centuries, and tonight around the world they stand there as guardians of our liberty, risking their lives. Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man.This dignity cannot be found in a mans poeions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position.It really rests on his right to be treated as a man equal in opportunity to all others.It says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being.To apply any other test - to deny a man his hopes because of his color, or race, or his religion, or the place of his birth is not only to do injustice, it is to deny America and to dishonor the dead who gave their lives for American freedom. Our fathers believed that if this noble view of the rights of man was to flourish, it must be rooted in democracy.The most basic right of all was the right to choose your own leaders.The history of this country, in large measure, is the history of the expansion of that right to all of our people.Many of the iues of civil rights are very complex and most difficult.But about this there can and should be no argument. But even if we pa this bill, the battle will not be over.What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and State of America.It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full bleings of American life.Their cause must be our cause too.B