We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的:人人生而平等;他们被造物主赋予某些不可剥夺的权利;其中包括生命、自由和对幸福的追求。

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There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

我年轻时对黑人有一种特殊的感情。不知何故,他们能够从我看不到他们享受的事物中获得快乐。我听到他们唱了很多,但我没有听到白人在棉花地里唱那么多。

Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.

做一个母亲是如此的强大和不可思议。我是那种相信生命会在特定的时间以特定的原因带给你某些东西的人之一,如果你随遇而安,那就是最美好的时刻的来源。

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

我宁愿承受太多自由带来的不便,也不愿承受太少自由带来的不便。

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

故事或小说的作者以人为对象,并模仿他们;他穷尽了他笔下人物的种种可能性。

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

人生来无知,而不是愚蠢。他们因受教育而变得愚蠢。

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.

大多数女性会原谅自由而不是轻视。