名人英语演讲

　　Ich bin ein Berliner ("I am a 'Berliner'")

　　I am proud to come to this city as the guest of your distinguished Mayor, who has symbolized throughout the world the fighting spirit of West Berlin. And I am proud -- And I am proud to visit the Federal Republic with your distinguished Chancellor who for so many years has committed Germany to democracy and freedom and progress, and to come here in the company of my fellow American, General Clay, who --

　　-- who has been in this city during its great moments of crisis and will come again if ever needed.

　　Two thousand years ago -- Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was "civis Romanus sum." Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."

　　(I appreciate my interpreter translating my German.)

　　There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world.

　　Let them come to Berlin.

　　There are some who say -- There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future.

　　Let them come to Berlin.

　　And there are some who say, in Europe and elsewhere, we can work with the Communists.

　　Let them come to Berlin.

　　And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it...

　　Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

　　Ladies and Gentlemen,

　　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.

　　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.

　　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...