The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  • -- Ralph W. Sockman 拉尔夫·W·索克曼

当我们处于少数时,勇气的考验就来了。当我们占多数的时候,宽容的考验就来了。

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Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

听着,我们知道当我们占多数的时候我们搞砸了。我们爱上了权力。我们花了太多钱,特别是专项拨款。我们经营这个地方的时候腐败太严重了。我们是有罪的。这就是我们失败的原因。

In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.

与这些活动一样,少数民族卫生月也提醒人们,在消除卫生和卫生保健不平等方面需要做多少工作。

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

大多数人压迫个人,就是犯罪,就是滥用自己的力量,按照最强大的法律行事,就是破坏社会的基础。

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

少数服从多数,就没有力量;那时它甚至不是少数;但当它被整个重量卡住时,它是无法抗拒的。

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

我认为世界上最伟大的教育是能够帮助一个人在必须做的时候做正确的事情。

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

但是,为了国家的福利,我们迫切需要认识到,少数民族确实在思考,而且在思考种族问题之外的其他问题。

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

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。

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

当黑人赋权似乎受益的不是绝大多数人,而是倾向于循环利用的精英阶层时,它是什么?

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

勇气是做你害怕做的事。没有恐惧就没有勇气。

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

你不能通过破坏人们的主动性和独立性来建立品格和勇气。

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

我坐在那里思考过过平凡的生活需要多少勇气。

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

宽容的责任在于具有更广阔视野的人。

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

什么是邪教?这只是意味着没有足够的人成为少数。

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

没有什么比别人的恐惧更能给一个恐惧的人勇气了。