Name: 緬懷傑西·傑克森牧師！ (Remembering Reverend Jesse Jackson)
Uploaded: 2026-02-18T23:04:04.000Z
Duration: 7 min 56 s

過去完成式

We all learned one of the last grand redwoods of the civil rights movement had fallen at 6 foot 3.

我們都聽說，社會運動最後幾位偉大的紅杉之一，身高六呎三吋，已經離我們而去。

Jesse Jackson was one of the giants who helped change American society and American politics.

傑西·傑克森是那些改變了美國社會和美國政治的巨人之一。

I was a young reporter sent to cover his speech at a black church in Norfolk, Virginia.

那時我還是一位年輕記者，被派去報導他在維吉尼亞州諾福克一間黑人教會的演講。

他的演講很快就變成了一場佈道。

Many of the congregation were shouting and crying.

It was as if 300 years of hurt and fear and rage and hope were released into the rafters.

彷彿三百年來的傷痛、恐懼、憤怒和希望，都隨著椽子一同釋放。

I will never forget that speech as much of America will never should never forget.

我永遠不會忘記那場演講，就像美國許多人永遠、永遠不該忘記一樣。

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is rainbow red, yellow, brown, black and white.

我們的國旗是紅、白、藍，但我們的國家是彩虹般的紅、黃、棕、黑和白。

在上帝眼中，我們都是珍貴的。

It was the legendary singer Nina Simone who wrote eloquently in 1970 of all that a square jawed, Hollywood handsome Jesse Jackson represented to the masses to be young, gifted and black.

傳奇歌手妮娜·西蒙在 1970 年曾寫下，一位方下巴、好萊塢帥哥般的傑西·L·傑克森，代表著年輕、有才華和黑人的所有特質，她對群眾這樣優美地闡述。

Jesse Louis Jackson was that and so much more.

傑西·路易斯·傑克森就是這樣，而且遠不止於此。

Born in the segregated south to an unwed mother, a star quarterback at North Carolina A and T University, with grit and rare oratory skills revered at the time, he rose quickly in the hardscrabble and harrowing youthful days of the civil rights movement.

他出生在種族隔離的南方，由一位未婚母親撫養，是北卡羅萊納州立大學的明星四分衛，憑藉著毅力和當時備受推崇的罕見演講技巧，他在社會運動艱辛且令人痛苦的年輕歲月中迅速崛起。

他成了馬丁·路德·金博士的知己。

Beside him in historic highs is something that will go down and certainly be one of the inspiring moments of life in the lowest of historic lows.

在他身邊，歷史性的高潮與谷底交織，這無疑將成為生命中最鼓舞人心的時刻之一。

But in the early 80s, an era when many thought a marriage between the pulpit and politics was impossible, he, like Eyre, rose to heights few with any of his ancestors or peers could even fathom.

但在 80 年代初期，一個許多人認為講壇與政治聯姻是不可能的時代，他，就像艾爾一樣，達到了連他的祖先或同輩都無法想像的高度。

All day tribute for the civil rights giant pouring in.

這位社會運動巨擘全天候地接受著各界的敬意。

Oprah Winfrey writing in part, when I became a young reporter, he was my first interview with a national figure.

歐普拉·溫芙蕾寫道，當我成為年輕記者時，他是我的第一次國家級人物採訪。

He inspired hope that will live on as he rests in peace.

他激勵了將永存的希望，願他安息。

From the Obamas who wrote, Michelle and I will always be grateful for Jesse's lifetime of service and the friendship our family share.

歐巴馬夫婦寫道，蜜雪兒和我將永遠感激傑西一生的奉獻以及我們家庭共享的友誼。

To actor Samuel L. Jackson posting Reverend Jesse Jackson, our profound leader and champion of justice.

演員山繆·傑克森發文悼念傑西·傑克遜牧師，我們深刻的領袖與公義的鬥士。

May we all join together and keep Reverend Jackson's hope alive.

願我們都能團結一心，讓傑克遜牧師的希望永存。

And Whoopi Goldberg honoring his legacy today on the View.

以及在《The View》節目中致敬他傳承的吳碧·戈德堡。

I can remember him sitting with little kids and saying, I am somebody.

我還記得他坐在小孩子們身邊說，「我不是無名小卒」。

That recognition meant the world to these children and to all of us, his children, remembering their father as a courageous, compassionate man.

這份認可對這些孩子們，以及我們這些記得父親是一位勇敢、有愛心的人的我們來說，意義非凡。

He said, I'm not going to leave you a lot of money, but

他說，我不會留給你們很多錢，但是

what I will try to do is give you a rich life.

我會努力給你們一個豐富的人生。

All of his life, Jackson preaching, exhorting, demanding justice in a quest to help his people and nation overcome.

傑克遜牧師一生都在講道、鼓勵、爭取正義，致力於幫助他的族人和國家克服困難。

We ain't the bottom, we're the foundation here.

我們不是最底層，我們是這裡的基石。

He was shoulder to shoulder with Martin Luther King, Jr.

他曾與馬丁·路德·金恩博士並肩作戰。

In 1965, witnessing the beatings of Bloody Sunday on television.

1965年，他在電視上看到了血腥星期日的暴力鎮壓。

And just three years later, he was there on the fateful April evening when King was struck down by an assassin's bullet.

而僅僅三年後，在那個決定性的四月夜晚，金恩博士被刺客的子彈擊中，他當時也在現場。

I tried to feel his head, and I asked him, I said, Dr. King, do you hear me?

我試著感受他的頭，然後問他，我說，金恩博士，你聽得到我說話嗎？

金恩博士，你聽得到我說話嗎？

Jackson eventually became one of the top lieutenants in the sclc, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which challenged the Jim Crow South's withering oppression.

傑克遜牧師最終成為南方基督教領袖會議（SCLC）的頂尖幹部之一，該會議挑戰了吉姆·克勞時代南方令人窒息的壓迫。

After a leadership struggle with King's successor, Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Jackson split from the SCLC and formed a new organization, People United to Save Humanity or Push.

在與金恩博士的繼任者雷夫·阿伯內西牧師領導權鬥爭後，傑克遜牧師離開了SCLC，成立了一個名為「人民團結拯救人類」（Push）的新組織。

He had a vision of this political machinery that would be all inclusive.

他有一個包容一切的政治機制的願景。

He built not just within the Democratic Party, he also built coalitions globally.

他不僅在民主黨內建立勢力，也與全球各界建立聯盟。

We know that we are worthy of respect and protection, but nobody really knows our name, and

我們知道自己值得尊重和保護，但沒有人真正知道我們的名字，

He broke boundaries in politics twice, running for president, first in 1984 under the banner of the Rainbow Coalition.

他兩度打破政治界線，競選總統，第一次是在1984年，以彩虹聯盟的名義。

My father was a man of tremendous courage.

Indeed, he was the most threatened political presidential candidate in history up to that point in time.

確實，他是當時歷史上受到最多威脅的總統候選人。

We walked into those campaigns really wondering if he was going to be alive.

我們走進那些競選活動時，真的不知道他是否還能活下來。

I was born in the slum, but the slum was not born in me.

我出生在貧民窟，但貧民窟沒有出生在我身上。

In 1988, the Democratic Party's frontrunner for the presidential nomination before eventually losing the nomination to Michael Dukakis.

1988年，他曾是民主黨總統候選人的熱門人選，但最終輸給了麥可·杜卡基斯。

I'd rather go down in the stirring fight than drowse to death at the sheltered show up.

我寧願在激烈的奮鬥中倒下，也不願在安逸的展示中沉睡至死。

Jackson also took on the role of freelance international negotiator, meeting with some of the world's most brutal tyrants overseas.

傑克森也扮演了自由的國際談判者，在海外會見過一些世界上最殘暴的獨裁者。

The American black activist Jesse Jackson has become an intermediary in the Middle East.

美國的黑人民權運動家傑西·傑克森，已成為中東地區的調解人。

In 1985, he joined Nightline for a debate with evangelical leader Jerry Falwell about apartheid.

1985年，他參加了「Nightline」節目，與福音派領袖傑瑞·費爾威爾就種族隔離政策展開辯論。

South Africa is a government that, on the basis of race, suppresses the majority of its citizens on the basis of race for the purpose of economic exploitation.

南非政府基於種族，為了經濟剝削而壓迫其大多數公民。

At times, he was a spiritual advisor, counseling President Clinton in his darkest hour.

有時，他扮演精神導師的角色，在柯林頓總統最艱難的時刻給予指導。

Facing impeachment over a sex scandal, Jackson had his own moments where he fell far short of what he had championed.

面對因性醜聞而來的彈劾，傑克森自己也有過與他所倡導的標準相去甚遠的時刻。

In the mid-1980s, facing controversy for allegedly making a highly offensive remark about the Jewish community.

在1980年代中期，他因被指控對猶太社區發表了極具冒犯性的言論而面臨爭議。

Not only was he an ordained minister, he was a married man.

他不僅是一位被按立的牧師，也是一位已婚人士。

But in 2001, he admitted to fathering a child after an affair with a former staffer.

但到了2001年，他承認在與一名昔日員工發生關係後生下了一個孩子。

Though somewhat diminished, Jackson leaned into his faith of forgiveness and redemption and kept fighting.

儘管有所失落，傑克森仍投入他的信仰，尋求寬恕與救贖，並持續奮鬥。

He saw one of his hopes realized on election night in 2008 in Chicago's Grant Park.

他看到自己的希望之一在2008年芝加哥格蘭特公園的選舉之夜實現。

I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.

我今晚比以往任何時候都更對我們能達成目標感到充滿希望。

At the time when Jesse Jackson ran, black presidential candidates were not considered viable.

傑西·傑克森參選的時代，黑人總統候選人並未被視為有勝選的可能。

They were often excluded from serious consideration.

他們經常被排除在嚴肅的考慮之外。

And so that's the first way in which Barack Obama really walked in the trail that Jesse Jackson blazed.

這就是為什麼巴拉克·歐巴馬真正走在傑西·傑克森開闢的道路上的第一個原因。

Reverend Jackson wept as President elect Barack Obama delivered his victory speech.

歐巴馬當選總統發表勝選感言時，傑克森牧師感動落淚。

In recent years, the effects of age and long illnesses slowed his gait, but not his spirit.

近年來，年齡和長期疾病的影響減緩了他的步伐，但沒有減緩他的精神。

Jackson's family saying he passed away peacefully in his sleep.

傑克森的家人表示，他在睡夢中安詳離世。

He was this larger than life paternal figure.

And so I'm just humbled by how many lives that he's changed and people that he's impacted.

我對他改變了多少生命、影響了多少人感到由衷的謙卑。

What I will miss the most is his poise, his fire, his passion, and

我最懷唸的是他的風範、他的熱情、他的激情，以及

for that I'm just so grateful for his legacy that I pray will live on and on and on.

對此，我對他永垂不朽的傳承感到非常感激。