In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

  • -- Eric Liu 刘耀威

归根结底,没有任何种族隔离主义方案能够经受住一个简单理念的力量:法律下的平等。

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

正如现代大规模生产需要商品的标准化一样,社会过程也需要人的标准化,这种标准化被称为平等。

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

我梦想有一天,我的四个孩子将生活在一个不是以他们的肤色,而是以他们的品格优劣来评价他们的国度里。

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

使我彻底绝望的是,我发现,而且每天都有新的发现,群众中没有革命的思想,没有希望,没有激情。

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

因此,我一直着迷于这样一个想法,即复杂性可以来自于这样的简单。

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

权力总是认为自己有一个伟大的灵魂和广阔的视野,超出了弱者的理解。

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

一个人有道义上的责任不遵守不公正的法律。