A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
压迫
Oppression
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
你若看见穷人受欺压，又看见公平公义在一国被践踏，不要惊惶。
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
当压迫制度制度化时，个人就没有必要压迫。
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
没有任何压迫比法律权威的扭曲和过分施加的压迫更沉重或持久。
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
我一直努力发出希望的声音，在这个世界上，仇恨让位于尊重，压迫让位于解放。
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
普遍地启发人民，身体和精神的暴政和压迫就会像邪恶的幽灵一样在黎明时分消失。
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
比起隔着半个地球的压迫和歧视，隔着半个地球的不公更容易激起人们的愤怒。
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
读书太多是一种心灵的压抑，熄灭了自然的蜡烛，这就是世界上有那么多无知的学者的原因。
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
为了观点而压迫任何一个人，除了加深这些观点并使它们变得更重要之外，很少有其他效果。
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
人们必须团结起来，一起工作。我厌倦了白人对我们施加的那种压迫，现在仍在试图施加这种压迫。
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
压迫是一群人对另一群人所做的事，特别是因为后者有一个共同的威胁特征。
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
要使自己的自由得到保障，就连敌人也必须保护自己不受压迫;因为如果他违反了这一义务，他就为自己树立了一个先例。
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
一个狂热者对一个民族的压迫念念不忘，直到他幻想自己受上天的委托去解放他们。他冒险尝试，结果除了自己的处决，几乎没有别的结果。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
显然不可阻挡和不可战胜的压迫不会引起反抗，而是会使人屈服。
As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.
由于存在对多数人的压迫，这种压迫将以日益增长的仇恨进行斗争。
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
但是，只有一件事能把人们聚集起来，引起煽动性的骚动，那就是压迫。
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
我们应该感到悲伤，而不是沉沦在它的压迫之下。
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则，即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风，但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利，而平等的法律必须保护这些权利，侵犯这些权利就是压迫。
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
懒惰是一切压迫中最沉重的。