A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
不公正
Injustice
When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.
当我们远离全球变暖，京都议定书，当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓，当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时，我们发出了一个可怕的信息，那就是表里不一和伪善。
In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.
从长远来看，压迫者也是受害者。在短期内(到目前为止，人类历史只是由短期组成的)，受害者，他们自己绝望，被压迫他们的文化污染，转而攻击其他受害者。
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
让我恼火的是，人们到处都在平淡地说，‘哦，我们的态度变了。我们不再讨厌这些人了。“但最奇怪的巧合是，他们并没有消除不公正;法律仍在制定之中。
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
人们很难相信这样一个简单的事实:每个迫害者都曾经是受害者。然而，应该非常明显的是，一个从小就被允许感到自由和强大的人，没有必要去羞辱另一个人。
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.
在任何情况下，只有少数人抗议长期存在的法律和习俗的不公正，但这并不能证明压迫的事实是不成立的，而许多人的满足，如果是真实的，只能证明他们的冷漠和更深的堕落。
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
一个人如果违反了良心告诉他是不公正的法律，并且心甘情愿地接受监禁的惩罚，以唤起社会对其不公正的良心，那么他实际上是在表达对法律的最高尊重。
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
接受一个人的生活与顺从无关;这并不意味着逃避斗争。相反，它意味着接受它的本来面目，带有遗传、痛苦、心理复杂和不公正的所有障碍。
Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
选择罢工不是工人们轻易做出的决定，而且总是伴随着强烈的工作不公平感。失去一天的工资带来的影响是巨大的，尤其是对于那些已经处于预算最紧张的低收入工作的人来说。
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?
这里有哪个女人如此迷恋自己所受的压迫，以至于看不到自己的脚后跟印在另一个女人的脸上?什么样的女人的压迫条件对她来说已经变得珍贵和必要，就像一张门票，进入正义的怀抱，远离自我审视的寒风?
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
黑夜不会一下子降临，压迫也不会一下子降临。在这两种情况下，当一切似乎都保持不变时，就会有一个黄昏。正是在这样的暮色中，我们所有人都必须意识到空气中的变化，无论多么轻微，以免我们不知不觉地成为黑暗的牺牲品。
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
你要知道人们会服从什么，你就会知道他们会受到多少不公正和错误的惩罚;这种情况将继续下去，直到有人用言语或拳头，或两者兼而有之加以抵抗。暴君的极限是由他们压迫的人的忍耐力决定的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
没有任何一面旗帜足以掩盖杀害无辜人民的耻辱。
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
正义甜美悦耳;但不公正是残酷和不和谐的。
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
自己不愿意做的事，又去问别人，这是不公平的。
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
贫富之间的不平衡是所有共和国中最古老和最致命的弊病。
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
废除糟糕法律的最好办法是严格执行。
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
发挥一个人的力量有两种方式:一种是向下推，另一种是向上拉。