"Redemption Song" | John Legend

翻译人员: 伯楠 张 校对人员: Mingyu Cui

At Free America, we've done a listening and learning tour.

“自由美国”刚刚完成了一次倾听和学习之旅。

We visited not only with prosecutors

我们不仅拜访了检察官

but with legislators,

以及立法委员，

with inmates in our state and local prisons.

还有在我们州立和地方监狱中的被收容者。

We've gone to immigration detention centers.

我们去了移民拘留中心。

We've met a lot of people.

我们见了很多人。

我们看到如果我们给

And we've seen that redemption and transformation can happen

正在监狱、拘留所和移民署看守所中

in our prisons, our jails and our immigration detention centers,

想在结束服役后

创造更好生活的人以希望，

giving hope to those who want to create a better life

救赎和变革会在此发生。

after serving their time.

Imagine if we also considered the front end of this prison pipeline.

让我们再想想这条监狱输送线的前端。

What would it look like if we intervened,

如果我们将改过自新作为核心价值，

with rehabilitation as a core value --

将爱与热情作为核心价值入手，

with love and compassion as core values?

那一切又将变成什么样子？

We would have a society that is safer,

我们将拥有一个更安全、

healthier

更健康，

and worthy of raising our children in.

值得让我们的孩子在其中成长的社会。

I want to introduce you to James Cavitt.

下面我想介绍詹姆斯·卡维特。

James served 12 years in the San Quentin State Prison

詹姆斯在圣昆廷州立监狱服刑了12年，

and is being released in 18 months.

18个月后将刑满释放。

Now James, like you and me,

詹姆斯就像你我一样，

is more than the worst thing he's done.

不再被他所做过的最大恶事所定义人生。

He is a father, a husband, a son, a poet.

他是一个父亲，一个丈夫，一个儿子，一个诗人。

他犯过罪；

He committed a crime;

he's paying his debt,

但他正在偿还他的债务，

正在努力学习技能

and working hard to build the skills

好让生活在他重返文明社会时重回正轨。

to make the transition back to a productive life

when he enters the civilian population again.

Now James, like millions of people behind bars,

詹姆斯正如全国上百万囚犯一样，

is an example of what happens

成为了“如果我们坚信我们的 错误不会一直定义我们的人生，

if we believe that our failings don't define who we are,

相信我们都值得被救赎，

那么一切将会有什么不同”的范例。

that we are all worthy of redemption

and if we support those impacted by mass incarceration,

而如果我们给予这些被囚禁者以支持，

we can all heal together.

我们也能随他们一起得到治愈。

I'd like to introduce you to James right now,

现在我就将向你们介绍詹姆斯，

and he's going to share his journey of redemption

他将通过演讲，

through spoken word.

与你们分享他的救赎之旅。

James Cavitt: Thanks, John.

詹姆斯·卡维特：谢谢，约翰！

TED, welcome to San Quentin.

TED，欢迎来到圣昆廷。

The talent is abundant behind prison walls.

在狱墙之后隐藏着丰富的天赋才华，

Future software engineers,

未来的软件工程师、

entrepreneurs,

企业家、

craftsmen,

工匠、

musicians

音乐家

and artists.

和艺术家。

This piece is inspired by all of the hard work

而这些才华正是男人们女人们在狱中，

that men and women are doing on the inside

所有的辛勤工作所激发产生的。

to create better lives and futures for themselves

为了让他们在结束服役后，

after they serve their time.

能够为他们自己创造更好的生活。

This piece is entitled, "Where I Live."

这一部分我的演讲叫做“我所居住的地方”。

I live in a world where most people are too afraid to go.

我住在一个大多数人极其恐惧来到的地方。

Surrounded by tall, concrete walls,

被高高的混凝土墙、

steel bars,

铁窗所包围，

where razor wire have a way

这里的铁丝网

of cutting away at the hopes for a brighter tomorrow.

能切断人们对于更光明未来的希望。

I live in a world

我住在一个

that kill people who kill people

通过杀死杀死别人的人

in order to teach people

来教导人们

that killing people is wrong.

杀人不对的世界。

Imagine that.

请想象一下。

Better yet,

那么更好的是，

imagine a world where healed people helped hurt people heal

如果我们想象有一个被治愈者 帮助受到伤害的人恢复，

and become strong.

从而变得更加强大的世界。

Maybe then we would all be singin' "Redemption Song."

也许这样的世界里每个人都在 高唱着“救赎之歌”。

I live in a world that has been called "hell on Earth"

我住在一个被关押在其中的人称为

by those trapped inside.

“地球上的地狱”的地方。

But I've come to the stark realization

但我逐渐明显地意识到

that prison --

监狱——

it really is what you make it.

到底是什么景象其实取决于你的内心。

You see, in spite of the harshness of my reality,

你看，尽管现实严酷，

there is a silver lining.

生活仍有美好幸福的一面。

I knew that my freedom was gonna come,

我知道我的自由即将到来，

it was just a matter of time.

这只是时间问题。

And so I treated my first steps as if they were my last mile,

而因此我就像人生最后一英里 一样对待我的第一步，

and I realized that you don't have to be free

而我也意识到想要经历自由，

in order to experience freedom.

未必需要人身自由。

And just because you're free,

而你似乎拥有着人身自由时，

doesn't mean that you have freedom.

也不意味着你拥有真正的自由。

Many of us, for years, have been battling our inner demons.

我们中的许多人，多年以来， 一直在与心中的恶魔战斗。

We walk around smiling when inside we're really screamin':

我们四顾微笑 而内心却在疾呼：

freedom!

自由！

Don't you get it?

你懂吗？

We're all serving time;

你我都是为了自由的服刑人员；

we're just in different places.

我们只是处在不同的地方而已。

As for me,

对我而言，

I choose to be free from the prisons I've created.

我选择从我自己所创造的监狱中 获得自由。

The key:

关键，

forgiveness.

是原谅。

Action's my witness.

行动是我的见证者

If we want freedom,

如果我想要得到自由，

then we gotta think different.

思想要有所不同。

Because freedom ...

因为自由……

it isn't a place.

它不是一个地方。

It's a mind setting.

它是一种思想境界。

Thank you.

谢谢！

(Applause)

（掌声）

(Piano)

（钢琴）

John Legend: Old pirates, yes, they rob I.

约翰·传奇：老海盗们，对，他们抢劫了我。

Sold I to the merchant ships.

把我卖到了商船。

Minutes after they took I

过了没多久他们把我

from the bottomless pit.

从无尽的深渊中救了出来。

My hands were made strong

然而我有一双

by the hand of the almighty.

上帝赋予坚强的双手。

We forward in this generation

我们朝向这个世代，

triumphantly.

胜利地。

Won't you help to sing

你不帮忙唱吗？

these songs of freedom?

这首自由之歌。

'Cause all I ever had --

因为我全部拥有的——

redemption songs.

救赎之歌。

Redemption songs.

救赎之歌。

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.

把你自己从被奴役的心灵中解放出来。

None but ourselves can free our minds.

只有自己能解放自己的心。

不要畏惧强权，

Have no fear for atomic energy

因为没有任何人能暂停时间。

'cause none of them can stop the time.

How long shall they kill our prophets

他们还要抹煞我们的先知多久，

while we stand aside and look?

而我们只能晾在一旁看着？

Some say it's just a part of it,

有人说那只不过是一小部分，

we've got to fulfill the book.

我们得说出全部实情。

Won't you help to sing

你不帮忙唱吗？

these songs of freedom?

这首自由之歌。

'Cause all I ever had --

因为我全部拥有的——

redemption songs.

救赎之歌。

Redemption songs.

救赎之歌。

(Piano)

（钢琴）

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.

把你自己从被奴役的心灵中解放出来。

None but ourselves can free our minds.

只有自己能解放自己的心。

Have no fear for atomic energy

不要畏惧强权，

'cause none of them can stop the time.

因为任何人都不能暂停时间。

How long shall they kill our prophets

他们还要抹煞我们的先知多久，

while we stand aside and look?

而我们只能晾在一旁看着？

Some say it's just a part of it,

有人说那只不过是一小部分，

we've got to fulfill the book.

我们得说出全部实情。

Won't you help to sing

你不帮忙唱吗？

these songs of freedom?

这首自由之歌。

'Cause all I ever had --

因为我全部拥有的——

redemption songs.

救赎之歌。

Redemption songs.

救赎之歌。

These songs of freedom.

这些自由之歌。

'Cause all I ever had --

因为我全部拥有的——

redemption songs.

救赎之歌。

Redemption songs.

救赎之歌。

Redemption songs.

救赎之歌。

(Piano)

（钢琴）

(Applause)

（掌声）

Thank you.

谢谢！

Thank you.

谢谢！

(Applause)

（掌声）