The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

  • -- Audre Lorde 罗尔蒂

主人的工具永远拆不开主人的房子。他们可能允许我们暂时在他自己的游戏中打败他,但他们永远不会允许我们带来真正的改变。

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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

生命的稳定,地球的不变使我感到安慰。在知识的发展过程中,似乎是新鲜而可怕的东西占据了一席之地。了解我们的宇宙是件好事。新事物对我们来说只是新事物。

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

在任何读过历史的人看来,不服从是人的本性。进步是通过不服从,通过不服从和反叛取得的。

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

要像太阳或大海一样仁慈,但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住,那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

当历史发生重大变化时,当涉及重大原则时,大多数人通常是错误的。少数人是对的。

It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

众所周知,最激进的革命者在革命后的第一天就会变成保守派。

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

做人权的唯一方法就是在医学上做正确的事情。

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

每个社会都尊重活着的墨守成规者和死去的捣乱者。

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

失败不是致命的,但不改变可能是致命的。