*In Climax#高潮结尾术欣赏 At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed.
　　O! Had I the ability, and could I stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.
　　For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.
　　We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
　　The feeling of the nation must be quicken; the conscience of the nation must be aroused; the propriety of the nation must be started; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and men must be proclaimed and denounced.
　　 What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.
　　To him, your celebration is a shame; you boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy─a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
　　There is not a nation of savages.
　　There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States at this very hour.
　　 Go, where you may, search where you will roam through all the monarchies and despotism of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.
　　现在这种时候，需要的不是有说服力的理论，而是炽热的烙铁。啊，要是我有能力使全国人民都听到我的声音，我今日就会滔滔不绝地倾吐出尖刻的嘲笑、强烈的谴责、无情的讥刺和严厉的申斥。因为现在需要的不是光，而是火；不是和风细雨，而是雷电霹雳；我们需要暴风，需要飓风，需要地震。我们需要触动这个国家的感情，唤起她的良知，震动她的礼仪之心，揭露她的伪善，公开谴责她违反上帝和人类的罪行。
　　你们走遍了海角天涯，找遍旧大陆（指欧洲）所有君主专制的集权国家，访遍南美洲，到处去挑出一切陋规恶习，然后拿那些东西与这个国家每天所干的事情比较一下，你们就会像我这样说：在极端野蛮和最无耻的伪善方面，美国确实首屈一指，举世无双。