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不公正
Injustice
I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.
我还想说,是的,我认为近年来黑人意识的变化使我对生活中各个领域的不公更加敏感。
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
当命运向你走来的时候,接受它是一件好事。如果不是,不要称之为命运;你可以称之为不公正、背叛或简单的坏运气。
Most of us live in a safe world. We don't have to fight for our values, we don't have to fight for our freedom, we don't have a sense of injustice.
我们大多数人生活在一个安全的世界。我们不需要为我们的价值观而战,我们不需要为我们的自由而战,我们没有不公平感。
I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, 'Wait.' Perhaps you can. I can't. And having decided that I cannot urge caution I must stand with him.
我不能对一个遭受不公待遇的人说:‘等等。“也许你能。我不能。我决定我不能催促他谨慎行事,我必须和他站在一起。
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
我对从一个自认为是我主人的人的桌上捡起同情的碎屑不感兴趣。我想要权利的全部菜单。
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
因为你是一个好人而期望世界公平地对待你,有点像因为你是素食主义者而期望公牛不会攻击你。
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.
被压迫人民的记忆是一件无法消除的东西,对于这样的人来说,有了这样的记忆,反抗总是藏在表面之下。
Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
也许是音乐使他们能够像那样工作,总是顺其自然,从不抱怨痛苦、困难或不公。
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
被动地接受罪恶的人与帮助作恶的人一样,都卷入其中。不加反抗地接受邪恶的人,实际上是在与邪恶合作。
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
你只需要做一只跳蚤来反抗不公。足够忠诚的跳蚤战略性地咬人,即使是最大的狗也会感到不舒服,甚至改变最大的国家。
I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible
我认为,如何利用下游的力量从来没有像现在这样重要。它最终将决定另一个世界是否真的可能存在
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。
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
如果你在不公正的情况下保持中立,你就选择了压迫者的一边。如果大象的脚踩在老鼠的尾巴上,而你说你是中立的,老鼠不会欣赏你的中立。
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。
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
要像太阳或大海一样仁慈,但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住,那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
投票是人类有史以来所设计的最有力的工具,它打破了不公正,摧毁了囚禁人们的可怕的高墙,因为他们与众不同。
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
从历史上看,最可怕的事情——战争、种族灭绝和奴隶制——不是源于不服从,而是源于服从。
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
邪恶胜利的唯一必要条件是好人什么也不做。