The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

  • -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 阿克顿

我们判断一个国家是否真正自由的最确定的标准是少数民族享有多少安全保障。

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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

释放熟悉和看似安全的东西,拥抱新的东西,需要很大的勇气。但在不再有意义的事情上没有真正的安全感。在冒险和刺激中有更多的安全感,因为在行动中有生命,在变化中有力量。

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

如果我们对少数民族如此残忍,他们为什么还来这里?为什么他们不偷偷越过墨西哥边境去找塔利班?

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

传统成为我们的保障,当思想得到保障时,它就会腐朽。