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激进分子
Radicals
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
每个社会都尊重活着的墨守成规者和死去的捣乱者。
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
每个革命者最终不是成为压迫者就是成为异教徒。
I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning -- organize.
我会像一个真正的蓝色叛军一样死去。不要把时间浪费在哀悼上——组织起来。
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
我在努力做两件事:敢于做一个激进的人,而不是一个傻瓜,这是一个不小的困难。
It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
众所周知,最激进的革命者在革命后的第一天就会变成保守派。
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
当历史发生重大变化时,当涉及重大原则时,大多数人通常是错误的。少数人是对的。
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
通过“激进”,我理解一个人走得太远;“保守主义者”指的是走得不够远的人;被一个“反动分子”,一个根本不愿去的人。
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
主人的工具永远拆不开主人的房子。他们可能允许我们暂时在他自己的游戏中打败他,但他们永远不会允许我们带来真正的改变。
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
政治活动家的工作不可避免地涉及在当前问题出现时必须采取立场的要求和希望自己的贡献能在时间的破坏中以某种方式幸存下来的愿望之间的某种紧张关系。
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.
告诉一个房子着火的人,适度地发出警报;告诉他适度地把他的妻子从掠夺者手中救出来;告诉母亲要慢慢地把她的孩子从它掉进去的火里救出来;但请敦促我不要使用节制。