The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison

翻译人员: Doris Zhang 校对人员: Hanlin Wang

T. Morgan Dixon: I would like to tell you about the most powerful woman

摩根·狄克逊： 我想要向各位分享一位

迄今为止最具影响力的女性的故事。

you've never heard of.

This is Septima Clark.

她就是赛普提玛·克拉克。

Remember her name: Septima Clark.

请记住她的名字：赛普提玛·克拉克。

Dr. King called her the "the architect of the civil rights movement,"

马丁·路德·金博士称她为 “民权运动的建筑师”，

because she created something called Citizenship Schools.

因为她创办了一所名为 “公民学校”的机构。

And in those schools, she taught ordinary women the practical skills

在这些学校里，她教授普通女性

能帮助她们适应社会的实用技能， 并教人们阅读。

to go back into their communities and teach people to read.

Because if they could read,

因为如果人们学会了阅读，

they could vote.

就能参与投票表决。

Well, these women took those organizing skills,

于是，这些女性拥有了组织才能后，

and they became some of the most legendary civil rights activists

便成为了这个国家最具有传奇色彩的

this country has ever seen.

民权运动家之一。

Women like Diane Nash.

像戴安·纳什这样的女性。

You may know her.

你也许听说过她。

She orchestrated the entire walk from Selma to Montgomery.

她策划了从塞尔玛到 蒙哥马利的整场游行活动。

She was a cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,

她是“学生非暴力协调委员会”的创始人之一，

and they integrated lunch counters,

她们使便餐柜台不再对顾客种族加以区分，

and they created the Freedom Rides.

还发起了自由乘车运动。

Or you may remember Fannie Lou Hamer,

或许你们还记得范妮·鲁·海默，

who sat on the floor of the Democratic National Convention

她坐在在民主党全国大会上的地板上，

and talked about being beaten in jail cells

侃谈起她因在密西西比州帮人们登记选举

as she registered people to vote in Mississippi.

而在监狱挨打的经历。

And her most famous student,

而赛普提玛·克拉克最有名的学生，

Rosa Parks.

罗莎·帕克斯说，

She said Septima Clark was the one who taught her

赛普提玛·克拉克教会了她

the peaceful act of resistance.

以和平的方式进行抗议。

And when she sat down,

当她在公交车前部 坐下抗议时，

she inspired a nation to stand.

她鼓舞了全国人民都站了起来。

These were just three of her 10,000 students.

这只是她一万名学生中的其中三位。

These women stood on the front lines of change,

这些女性站在变革的最前沿，

and by doing so,

通过这些平权活动，

they taught people to read in her Citizenship School model

她们使人们在公民学校的 教学模式下学习阅读，

and empowered 700,000 new voters.

从而赋予了七十万新选民投票选举的能力。

And that's not it.

还远不止这些。

She created a new culture of social activism.

她创造了一个新的社会活动文化。

Pete Seeger said it was Septima Clark who changed the lyrics

皮特·西格说，是赛普提玛·克拉克

改写了福音曲的歌词，

to the old gospel song

and made the anthem we all know:

使它成为如今我们所熟知的圣歌：

"We Shall Overcome."

“我们终将克服。”

Vanessa Garrison: Now, many of you may know us.

凡妮莎·加里森: 现在，你们中有些人也许了解我们。

We are the cofounders of GirlTrek,

我们是GirlTrek的联合创始人，

the largest health organization for Black women in America.

是美国最大的为黑人女性设立的 健康组织。

Our mission is simple:

我们的使命很简单：

ask Black women,

呼吁黑人女性行动，

80 percent of whom are over a healthy body weight,

她们之中，百分之八十的人 因超出健康体重

to walk outside of their front door every day

而不能通过每天走出家门散步，

to establish a lifesaving habit of walking;

养成有益健康的步行习惯；

in doing so, ignite a radical movement

我们通过这个组织，发起激进运动，

in which Black women reverse the devastating impacts

从而使黑人女性逆转慢性病所导致的

of chronic disease,

毁灭性的影响，

reclaim the streets of their neighborhoods,

帮助她们重新回到社区街道上，

create a new culture of health for their families

为她们的家庭创造新的健康文化，

and stand on the front lines for justice.

并且站在伸张公平的最前沿。

Today, all across America,

在如今的美国，

more than 100,000 Black women are wearing this GirlTrek blue shirt

十万以上的黑人女性在穿过社区街道时

as they move through their communities --

会穿着GirlTrek的蓝色衬衣，

a heroic force.

她们是榜样的力量。

We walk in the footsteps of Septima Clark.

我们在赛普提玛·克拉克 所建立的基础上前进。

She gave us a blueprint for change-making.

她给我们描绘了一个变革的蓝图。

One, to have a bold idea,

首先，要有个大胆的想法，

bigger than anyone is comfortable with.

一个大多数人都不敢有的想法。

To two: root down in the cultural traditions of your community

然后第二步：扎根于社区的传统文化

and lean heavily on what has come before.

并遵循先前的经验。

To three: name it --

第三步：命名--

that one thing that everyone is willing to work hard for;

赋予一个所有人都想为之奋斗的名字；

a ridiculously simple goal that doesn't just benefit the individual

一个再简单不过的目标， 不仅能给个人带来利益，

but the village around them.

还能给她们所处的环境带来益处。

And to, lastly:

还有，最后：

never ask permission to save your own life.

永远不要在挽救自己的生命时 去征求他人的许可。

It is our fundamental right as human beings

解决我们自己的问题，

to solve our own problems.

是生而为人的最基本权利。

TMD: So to the women all out there gathered in your living rooms,

狄克逊：我们想对那些聚集在客厅，

rooting for us, acting crazy on social media right now --

支持我们，活跃在 社交媒体上的女同胞们说--

we see you.

我们看到了。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

We see you every day. We love you.

我们每天都能看到你们。 我们爱你们。

You are not alone,

你们不是孤军作战，

and our bigger work starts now.

我们更重要的任务现在开始。

VG: You got us onto this stage --

加里森： 你们把我们送上这个舞台上--

your leadership;

你们的领导才能；

auditing blighted streets in Detroit;

你们对底特律破败的街道进行的审查；

working with hospitals and health care systems in Harlem;

和哈莱姆区的医院及 保健系统进行的协作；

praying over the streets of Sacramento, Charlotte, Brooklyn, Flint

为萨克拉门托, 夏洛特, 布鲁克林, 弗林特的街区，

and every community that has seen trauma;

和每个见证过悲伤的社区的祈祷；

changing traffic patterns, making your streets safer;

为了使街道更加安全 而改变交通模式所做的努力；

and most importantly,

而最重要的是，

standing as role models.

你们所树立的榜样。

And it all started with your commitment to start walking,

这些都源自 你们致力于发起的步行活动，

your agreement to organize your friends and family

你们愿为协调朋友和家人 所做的一切，

and your belief in our broader mission.

和你们对我们的使命所依托的信任。

TMD: It's important to me that everyone in this room understands

狄克逊: 对我来说尤为重要的是，在座的每个人

exactly how change-making works in GirlTrek.

都能理解GirlTrek是具体怎样 实行变革的。

One well-trained organizer has the power to change the behavior

一个接受过良好培训的组织者足以改变

of 100 of her friends.

一百位朋友的行动。

We know that is true,

我们知道这是事实，

because the [1,000] women blowing up social media right now

因为这一千位正活跃于社交媒体的女性，

have already inspired over 100,000 women to walk.

已经鼓励了十万位女性走出来。

(Applause)

（掌声）

But that is not nearly enough.

但是这还远远不够。

And so our goal is to create critical mass.

我们的目标是达到空前规模。

And in order to do that,

为了实现这一点，

we have an audacious plan to scale our intervention.

我们有一个可以评估我们 介入效果的大胆计划。

A thousand organizers is not enough.

一千名组织者是不够的。

GirlTrek is going to create the next Citizenship School.

GirlTrek将要建立下一所“公民学校”。

And in doing so, we will train 10,000 frontline health activists

这样以来，我们会培养 一万名活跃在前线的健康活动家，

and deploy them into the highest-need communities in America.

并且把他们分派到 全美最需变革的社区中去。

Because when we do, we will disrupt disease;

因为当我们做到这些时， 我们将控制住疾病；

we will create a new culture of health.

我们将建设新的健康文化。

And what we will do is create a support system

我们要做的便是建立一个体系，

for one million Black women to walk to save their own lives.

支持一百万位黑人女性通过步行 挽救她们自己生命。

(Applause)

（掌声）

And our training is unparalleled.

我们的训练模式是前所未有的。

I just want you to imagine.

请试想一下。

It's like a revival, tent-like festival,

这就像一个在帐篷里举行的复兴节日，

not unlike the civil rights movement teach-ins.

和民权运动的教育模式不同。

And we're going to go all across the country.

我们将要走遍全国。

It is the biggest announcement this week:

我们将宣布这周的最重大消息：

Vanessa and I and a team of masterful teachers,

凡妮莎和我，还有一个卓越的教师团队

all to culminate next year,

明年将会踏上

on sacred ground,

塞尔玛，阿拉巴马的

in Selma, Alabama,

神圣的土地，

to create a new annual tradition that we are calling "Summer of Selma."

发扬我们称为 “塞尔玛之夏”的年度传统。

VG: Summer of Selma will be an annual pilgrimage

凡妮莎·加里森： “塞尔玛之夏” 是一场年度之行，

that will include a walk --

其中包括一项长达

54 miles,

54英里的步行活动。

the sacred route from Selma to Montgomery.

路线从塞尔玛一直到蒙哥马利。

It will also include rigorous training.

它还会涵盖严苛的训练。

Picture it,

试想一下，

as women come to learn organizing and recruitment strategies,

当女性们来这里学习组织管理 和招聘策略时，

to study exercise science,

来学习运动学时，

to take nutrition classes,

来上营养课时，

to learn storytelling,

来学习讲故事时，

to become certified as outdoor trip leaders

来成为合格的户外旅行家

and community advocates.

以及社区活动倡导者时。

TMD: This is going to be unprecedented.

狄克逊： 这将是史无前例的。

It's going to be a moment in time like a cultural institution,

这将会成为一年一度的文化惯例，

and in fact,

而实际上，

it's going to be the Woodstock of Black Girl Healing.

这将成为治愈黑人女性们的 伍德斯托克音乐节。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

(Applause)

（掌声）

VG: And the need --

加里森： 而对这种活动的需求--

it's more urgent than ever.

比任何时候都更为紧迫。

We are losing our communities' greatest resource.

我们团体正在失去最大的资源。

Black women are dying in plain sight.

显而易见，黑人女性正命悬一线。

And not only is no one talking about it,

不仅没有人讨论这件事，

but we refuse to acknowledge

人们还拒绝承认

that the source of this crisis is rooted in the same injustice

这份危机依旧源于

that first propelled the civil rights movement.

刺激民权运动的同种不公。

On December 30 of 2017,

2017年的12月30日，

Erica Garner,

艾丽卡·加纳，

the daughter of Eric Garner,

埃里克·加纳的女儿，

a Black man who died on the streets of New York

这位黑人男性因被警察锁喉

from a police choke hold,

而命丧纽约街头，

passed away of a heart attack.

而他的女儿死于心力衰竭。

Erica was just 27 years old,

艾丽卡那时才27岁，

the mother of two children.

是两个孩子的妈妈。

She would be one of 137 Black women that day --

她是同一天中死于心脏疾病的 137位黑人女性之一--

more than 50,000 in the last year --

去年，超过五万名黑人女性--

to die from a heart-related issue,

死于心脏疾病，

many of their hearts broken from trauma.

她们其中很多人 因沉重的心灵创伤而死去。

The impacts of stress on Black women

这种压力影响着很多黑人女性，

who send their children and spouses out the door each day,

使她们每天担心出门在外的孩子或配偶，

unsure if they will come home alive;

是否能活着回来。

who work jobs where they are paid 63 cents to every dollar paid to white men;

她们做着薪水63美分， 而白人能赚一美金的工作；

who live in communities with crumbling infrastructure

她们住在设施陈旧的社区里，

with no access to fresh fruits or vegetables;

买不到新鲜的水果和蔬菜；

with little to no walkable or green spaces --

几乎没有地方散步，也没有绿地--

the impact of this inequality is killing Black women

在这个国家，相比其他种族，

at higher and faster rates than any other group in the country.

黑人女性因此种不公 正更高频更快速地被抹杀。

But that is about to change.

但现状将有所改变。

It has to.

它必须改变。

TMD: So let me tell you a story.

狄克逊： 我来向你们分享一个故事。

About three weeks ago --

大概三周前--

many of you may have watched --

很多人也许已经见证过了--

Vanessa and I and a team of 10 women walked 100 miles

凡妮莎，我， 和一个由十位女性组成的小组

on the actual Underground Railroad.

沿着“地下铁路”的原址走了一百英里。

We did it in five days --

我们用了5天走完全程--

five long and beautiful days.

漫长却美丽的5天。

And the world watched.

全世界都看到了。

Three million people watched the live stream.

三百万人观看了直播。

Some of you in here, the influencers, shared the story.

在座的部分人，影响者， 分享了这个故事。

Urban Radio blasted it across the country.

城市广播电台向全国 播报了这个事件。

VG: Even the E! News channel interrupted a story about the Kardashians --

加里森：甚至E!新闻频道打断了 关于卡戴珊的新闻--

which, if you asked us, is just a little bit of justice --

如果你们问我们为什么的话， 这只是为了伸张一点点正义--

(Laughter)

（笑声）

to report that GirlTrek had made it safely on our hundred-mile journey.

而去报道GirlTrek安全走完了 上百英里的路程。

(Applause)

（掌声）

TMD: People were rooting for us.

狄克逊： 大家都支持我们。

And they were rooting for us because in this time of confusion and contention,

他们支持我们是因为， 在这个喧嚣混乱的时代，

this journey allowed us all to reflect on what it meant to be American.

这段路程使我们反思， 什么是美国精神。

We saw America up close and personal as we walked.

当我们行走时， 便能够亲身近距离地观察美国。

We walked through historic towns,

我们穿过有历史意义的小镇，

through dense forest,

茂密的森林，

past former plantations.

和废弃的种植园。

And one day,

而有一天，

we walked into a gas station that was also a café,

我们进入了一个有咖啡馆的加油站，

and it was filled with men.

屋内全是男人。

They were wearing camo and had hunting supplies.

他们穿着迷彩服，带着打猎用具。

And out front were all of their trucks, and one had a Confederate flag.

门外停满了他们的卡车， 其中一辆还挂着南部联邦旗。

And so we left the establishment.

于是我们离开了这里。

And as we were walking along this narrow strip of road,

当我们沿着一条狭窄的路行走时，

a few of the trucks reared by us so close,

有几辆卡车的车尾离我们很近，

and out of their tailpipe was the specter of mob violence.

排气管散出群体暴动的凶兆。

It was unnerving.

这很令人紧张不安。

But then it happened.

接下来发生了一件事。

Right on the border of Maryland and Delaware,

就在马里兰和特拉华州的交界处，

we saw a man standing by his truck.

我们看到一个男人站在他的卡车旁，

The tailgate was down.

后挡板敞开着。

He had on a brown jacket.

他穿了一件棕色的外套。

He was standing there awkwardly.

尴尬地站在那儿。

The first two girls in our group, Jewel and Sandria,

我们组走在最前面的两位女士， 珠儿和桑德里娜，

they walked by because he looked suspicious.

从他身边走了过去， 因为他看上去很可疑。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

But the bigger group, we stopped to give him a chance.

但是，我们后方的队伍 停下来给他搭话的机会。

And he walked up to us and he said,

他向我们走过来，说道，

"Hi, my name is Jake Green.

“你们好，我叫杰克·格林，

I heard you on Christian radio this morning,

我今天早上在基督教的广播里 听到了你们的故事，

and God told me to bring you supplies."

上帝让我给你们带些补给品来。”

He brought us water,

他给我们带了水，

he brought us granola,

带了即食麦片，

and he brought us tissue.

还有纸巾。

And we needed tissue because we had just walked through a nor'easter;

我们需要纸巾，因为我们 刚经历了一场东北风暴；

it was 29 degrees, it was sleeting on our faces.

那时是29华氏度， 我们脸上都是雨和雪。

Our sneakers and our socks were frozen and wet and frozen again.

我们的运动鞋和袜子都冻住了， 弄湿后又冻上了。

We needed that tissue more than he could have possibly understood.

我们比他想象得更需要纸巾。

So on that day, in that moment,

从那天起，在那个时刻，

Jake Green renewed my faith in God for sure,

杰克·格林的确使我 对上帝的信仰有所改观，

but he renewed my faith in humanity.

但他也改变了我对人性的信心。

We have a choice to make.

我们要做出一个选择。

In America, we can fall further into the darkness of discord, or not.

在美国，我们可以选择继续踏入 冲突所带来的黑暗，或完全相反。

我在这里想告诉大家的是，

And I am here to tell you

that the women of GirlTrek are walking through the streets

GirlTrek的女性正行走在大街上，

举着冉冉不灭的火把。

with a light that cannot be extinguished.

VG: They are also walking through the streets with a mission

加里森： 她们还肩负着使命行走在大街上，

as clear and as powerful as the women who marched in Montgomery:

这个使命和蒙哥马利游行中的女性 一样的清晰、一样的强大：

that disease stops here,

疾病要在这里停止传播，

that trauma stops here.

悲怆要在这里停止延续。

And with your support

在你们的支持下，

and in our ancestors' footsteps,

沿着我们前辈的足迹，

these 10,000 newly trained activists will launch the largest health revolution

这一万名新受训的社会活动者将会发起

this country has ever seen.

这个国家最大的健康革命。

And they will return to their communities and model the best of human flourishing.

他们还将返回社区， 并且为人类繁荣做出最好的榜样。

And we --

而我们--

we will all celebrate.

我们将会欢庆这一切。

Because like Jake Green understood,

就像杰克·格林所认同的，

our fates are intertwined.

我们的命运息息相关。

Septima Clark once said,

赛普提玛·克拉克曾说，

"The air has finally gotten to a place where we can breathe it together."

“终于到了我们同呼吸共命运的时候。”

And yet,

然而，

the haunting last words of Eric Garner were: "I can't breathe."

埃里克·加纳的那句 无法释怀的遗言是：“我无法呼吸”。

And his daughter Erica died at 27 years old,

他的女儿艾丽卡，27岁去世的时候

still seeking justice.

仍然在寻求正义。

So we --

所以我们--

we're going to keep doing Septima's work

我们将要延续赛普提玛的使命，

until her words become reality,

直到她的话语成为真实，

until Black women are no longer dying,

直到黑人女性不再命悬一线，

until we can all breathe the air together.

直到我们所有的人都能够 同呼吸、共命运。

Thank you.

谢谢大家。

(Applause)

（掌声）