The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

  • -- Hosea Ballou 马士

为了观点而压迫任何一个人,除了加深这些观点并使它们变得更重要之外,很少有其他效果。

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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则,即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风,但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利,而平等的法律必须保护这些权利,侵犯这些权利就是压迫。

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

“在我看来”,这句话几乎没什么可说的——甚至不谦虚。自然一句话只是你的意见;你又不是教皇。

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

我热爱真理,崇尚自由,是语言、纯洁和宽容祭坛上的司仪。

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

问题从来就不简单。令我自豪的一件事是,你很少会听到我简化问题。

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

迫害对他们产生了自然的影响。它为他们找到了一个教派;这使他们成为一个派系。

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

没有革命理论,就没有革命运动。

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

没有哪位大臣曾经或能够站起来反对公众舆论。

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

我很少画我看到的东西。我画出我身体的感觉。