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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

  • -- Martin Luther King Jr 马丁·路德·金

一个人如果违反了良心告诉他是不公正的法律，并且心甘情愿地接受监禁的惩罚，以唤起社会对其不公正的良心，那么他实际上是在表达对法律的最高尊重。

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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?

这里有哪个女人如此迷恋自己所受的压迫，以至于看不到自己的脚后跟印在另一个女人的脸上?什么样的女人的压迫条件对她来说已经变得珍贵和必要，就像一张门票，进入正义的怀抱，远离自我审视的寒风?

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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

一个国际社会只有通过世界通讯才能存在，这意味着不仅仅是遍布全球的广泛的短波设施。它意味着共同的理解、共同的传统、共同的思想和共同的理想。

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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

如果我们只关心和平，就不可能有和平。战争不是偶然的。它是某种生活方式的逻辑结果。如果我们想攻击战争，我们就必须攻击那种生活方式。

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The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.

公众需要艺术——一个“自称艺术家”的人有责任认识到，公众需要艺术，而不是为少数人创造资产阶级艺术，忽视大众。

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

不服从是美德中最罕见、最勇敢的一种，很少与忽视、最懒惰和最常见的恶习区分开来。

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I accept life unconditionally. ... Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

我无条件地接受生活。大多数人要求幸福是有条件的。幸福只有在你不设定任何条件的情况下才能感受到。

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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

在每个社区，都有工作要做。每个国家都有伤口需要愈合。在每个人的心中，都有这样做的力量。

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The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

盎格鲁-撒克逊人的良心并没有阻止他们犯罪，它只是阻止他们享受自己的罪恶。

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If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

如果你生命中的某个人用你对自己说话的方式对你说话，你早就离开他们了。

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If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

如果在极限状态下，你能在没有犯罪的情况下执政，你就不能在没有不公正的情况下执政。

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There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.

没有无辜的人。然而，有不同程度的责任。

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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

我们必须接受失望，因为它是有限的，但千万不可失去希望，因为它是无穷的。

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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

没有良心的勇气是野兽。

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