The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

  • -- Ida B. Wells 艾达·B·威尔斯

孟菲斯市已经证明,如果黑人敢于保护自己不受白人的侵害或成为他的竞争对手,那么无论是品格还是地位都对他毫无帮助。

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

良好的品格比杰出的才能更值得称赞。在某种程度上,大多数才能都是一种天赋。相反,良好的品格不是赋予我们的。我们必须一步一步地建设它——通过思考、选择、勇气和决心。

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

你也必须保护它,你不能让任何一个愚蠢的人拿着它去做一些让人泄气的事情。与此同时,我也不认为要对所发生的事情进行如此严格的控制。

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

我认为我们对孩子有一种道德上的责任,可以很容易地总结为:第一,保护他们免受伤害。

The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person.

最复杂的虚构人物远没有最无聊的真人那么复杂。

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

人就是他所塑造的自己。

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

人最大的敌人莫过于自己。