A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人权
Human Rights
Last guys don't finish nice.
最后一个人的结局并不好。
Self-respect knows no considerations.
自尊无需考虑。
To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.
我的权利并不归功于任何人类宪章。
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
恐惧不是文明人的自然状态。
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
人类对人类的不人道使无数的人哀悼!
The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
世界上最大的权利就是犯错的权利。
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
没有男人好到不经女人同意就支配她的地步。
I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.
我当时是对的,现在也是。我想时间证明我是对的。
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
如果我们不给他们自尊,他们就不能剥夺我们的自尊。
I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.
在人权等问题上,我很政治化。
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
做人权的唯一方法就是在医学上做正确的事情。
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
我们在这里创造了一项新的人权- -战后返回家园的权利。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.
你看整个人权问题,我恰好在这个国家刚刚觉醒的时候在那里——这是你问的第一个问题——整个国家正在觉醒,意识到一百年来的不公正还没有得到解决。
We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we've got to say: look, we're all in this together. We are human beings.
我们必须夺回正义的理想,我们必须夺回人类尊严的原则。我们必须从复仇中收回,从仇恨中收回,我们必须说:看,我们都在一起。我们是人。
Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.
也许我对这些问题不那么敏感,因为我看到人们首先需要的是经济安全,只有当他们有了经济安全,他们才有能力关注人权。
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
二十世纪可能告诉我们,在人类近代史上,我们没有什么可自满的;但它也告诉我们,暴政并非不可避免。
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
你不能让自己感觉一些你感觉不到的东西,但你可以让自己做正确的事,不管你的感觉如何。
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
所以我们在这里谈论的是人权。像人类一样生活的权利。生存的权利,句号。我们在非洲面临的是对人类尊严和平等的前所未有的威胁。