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平等
Equality
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
关于平等,其中一件事不只是你被平等地对待一个男人,而是你以平等的方式对待自己。
I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.
我想努力尊重个人的尊严。平等的权利,这就是我的心。这意味着平等的权利和利益,这就是我们所需要的。
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
妇女权利不仅是一种抽象概念,一种事业;这也是一件私事。这不仅关乎我们;这也是关于我和你。就我们两个人。
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
平等的权利产生了我们最高利益的同一性;你不可能在不给自己造成危险打击的情况下,破坏邻居的权利。
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
改革的开始与其说是为了使财产均等化,不如说是为了训练高尚的人不要贪得无厌,防止低人一等的人得到更多。
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
我们今天的奋斗目标不是让一位女爱因斯坦被任命为助理教授。女性的晋升速度应该和男性一样快。
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
至关重要的是,国会议员必须投票支持我们国家赖以建立的价值观:人人平等、自由和机会。
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
我梦想有一天,我的四个孩子将生活在一个不是以他们的肤色,而是以他们的品格优劣来评价他们的国度里。
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
正如现代大规模生产需要商品的标准化一样,社会过程也需要人的标准化,这种标准化被称为平等。
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
平等是公众对一项原则的承认,即同等程度的注意是由于所有人的需要,这一原则在体制和方式上得到了有效的表达。
On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.
一方面,我们公开宣布各国人民一律平等;另一方面,在我们的移民法中,我们在实践中接受了这些我们憎恶和口头谴责的理论。
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
以下是我所坚持的价值观:诚实、平等、善良、同情,以你希望的方式对待他人,并帮助那些需要帮助的人。对我来说,这些都是传统价值观。
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Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
友谊是创造平等和相互关系的东西,而不是寻找平等的奖赏,也不是加强现有相互关系的一种方式。
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
在我们所有人都得到保障并纳入我们的共同生活之前,我们为自己争取的利益是不稳定和不确定的。
Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
你的平等者希望与他们自己平等;但他们无法忍受自己的水平。
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
人类的智慧从未创造出一种完全平等运作的税制。
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.
平等没有任何意义,除非被纳入制度。
It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
一位智者曾说过,没有什么比平等对待不平等更不平等的了。