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Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

  • -- Eric Liu 刘耀威

保守派忘记了公民身份不仅仅是对移民的一种保留。进步人士忘记了这不仅仅是一套权利。

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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

波希米亚不过是一个你不住的小地方。如果你想在那里获得公民身份，朝廷和随从们立刻把王室的档案和财宝打包，搬到山那边去。

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I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didn't want to be either one.

我来自一个传统的移民家庭，在那里，教育意味着只有几种有效的途径:医生或律师——我不想成为其中任何一种。

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By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

通过“激进”，我理解一个人走得太远;“保守主义者”指的是走得不够远的人;被一个“反动分子”，一个根本不愿去的人。

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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

选举权是公民的一项共同权利。妇女有选举权。从逻辑上讲，它是无法转义的。

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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

首先，我们并不总是欢迎移民。

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