It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

  • -- Florence Kelley 弗洛伦斯·凯利

任何工人的身体永远挂在比自己的身体略低的水平上的其他身体的边缘,这是致命的;因为这意味着持续的下行压力,在维持合理工资率的斗争中还要克服额外的困难。

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Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

失业对个人的影响比你想象的还要大。除了明显的危害——贫困、难以偿还债务——它似乎直接影响人们的健康,尤其是老年工人的健康。

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

另一个人说得好,教育一个学生,他的黑脸是一种诅咒,他改变自己状况的努力是无望的,以此来阻碍他,这是最糟糕的私刑。

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.

我们就像蝴蝶,只飞了一天,却以为是永远。

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

教育的最大困难是从思想中获得经验。

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

所有的艺术都是一种挣扎,以一种特殊的方式,成为有道德的人。