名稱：36 Non-violence Is My Faith （Ⅰ）
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晨讀英語美文 名人演講
[00:04.46]Non-violence Is My Faith （Ⅰ）
[00:13.66]Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
[00:18.59]It is the last article of my faith.
[00:20.99]But I had to make my choice.
[00:23.29]I had either to submit to a system
[00:25.98]which I considered has done
[00:27.83]an irreparable harm to my country
[00:29.69]or incur the risk of the mad fury
[00:32.86]of my people bursting forth
[00:34.94]when they understood the truth from my lips.
[00:37.24]I know that my people have sometimes gone mad.
[00:40.96]I am deeply sorry for it; and I am therefore,
[00:44.78]here, to submit not to a light penalty
[00:48.18]but to the highest penalty.
[00:50.25]I do not ask for mercy.
[00:52.22]I do not plead any extenuating act.
[00:55.39]I am here,therefore, to invite and submit
[00:58.65]to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me
[01:01.54]for what in law is a deliberate crime
[01:04.28]and what appears to me to be the highest
[01:07.45]duty of a citizen.
[01:09.09]The only course open to you,
[01:11.72]Mr.Judge, is, as I am just going to say in my statement,
[01:15.55]either to resign your post or inflict on me
[01:18.72]the severest penalty if you believe that the system
[01:22.11]and law you are assisting to administer
[01:24.19]are good for the people.
[01:25.94]I do not expect that kind of conversion.
[01:29.11]But by the time I have finished
[01:31.29]with my statement you will,
[01:32.94]perhaps, have a glimpse of what
[01:34.90]is raging within my breast
[01:36.76]to run this maddest risk
[01:38.71]which a sane man can run.
[01:40.67]Little do town-dwellers know
[01:43.51]how the semi-starved masses of Indians
[01:46.25]are slowly sinking to lifelessness.
[01:49.20]Little do they know that their miserable
[01:52.27]comfort represents the brokerage
[01:54.68]they get for the work they do
[01:56.32]for the foreign exploiter,
[01:57.85]that the profits and the brokerage
[02:00.18]are sucked from the masses.
[02:02.04]Little do they realize that the government
[02:04.56]established by law in British India
[02:06.97]is carried on for this exploitation of the masses.
[02:10.79]No sophistry, no jugglery in figures
[02:14.58]can explain away the evidence the skeletons
[02:17.67]in many villages present to the naked eye.
[02:20.52]I have no doubt whatsoever that both England
[02:24.23]and the town-dwellers of India will have to answer,
[02:27.51]if there is a God above,
[02:29.48]for this crime against humanity
[02:31.45]which is perhaps unequalled in history.
[02:34.29]The law itself in this country has been used
[02:38.12]to serve the foreign exploiter.
[02:40.09]My experience of political cases in India leads me
[02:44.46]to the conclusion
[02:45.47]that in nine out of every ten
[02:47.88]the condemned men were totally innocent.
[02:50.83]Their crime consisted in love of their country.
[02:54.00]In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred,
[02:57.17]justice has been denied to Indians
[02:59.61]as against Europeans in the courts of India.
[03:02.89]This is not an exaggerated picture.
[03:05.73]It is the experience of almost every Indian
[03:09.45]who has had anything to do with such cases.
[03:12.21]In my opinion the administration of the law
[03:15.82]is thus prostituted consciously
[03:18.01]or unconsciously for the benefit of the exploiter.