Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  • -- Barry Goldwater 巴里·戈德华特

平等,正如我们的开国元勋们所正确理解的那样,将导致自由和创造性分歧的解放;正如在我们这个时代所发生的悲剧一样,对它的错误理解,首先导致了顺从,然后导致了专制。

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The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

我们努力确保每个孩子都有机会,其本质必须是确保每个孩子都有平等的机会,不是要变得平等,而是要变得不同——实现他或她所拥有的任何独特的身体、心灵和精神潜能。

It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

一位智者曾说过,没有什么比平等对待不平等更不平等的了。

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

另一件事是我不想再搬家了。我一生中搬过很多次家。

It's not the time to look for excuses.

现在不是找借口的时候。