A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.
每一个坚持立场的男人或女人都有助于保持自由之火的燃烧。
A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded cannot be safely disregarded.
一种普遍的感情，无论其根据是好是坏，都不能完全忽视。
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
机会均等意味着每个人都有公平的机会成为不称职的人。
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
真正的危险是自由被蚕食，为了权宜之计，被部分蚕食。
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
失恋主要是忘记一个人有多迷人。
I am a big believer in women's lib, but I love when a man holds a door for me.
我坚信妇女解放运动，但我喜欢男人为我开门。
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
我对自由社会的定义是，不受欢迎是安全的。
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
社会运动的好处是每个人都能参与其中。
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
爵士乐是白人用来定义黑人的一个术语。我的音乐是黑人古典音乐。
This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
这个共和国不是由懦夫建立的;懦夫也不会保护它。
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
在这里，先生，人民当家作主;在这里，他们由他们的直接代表采取行动。
Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.
任何反对女性的人，反对这个时代的人，都不应该再次当选。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
自由，当它开始生根时，是一株迅速生长的植物。
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
没有自由的秩序和没有秩序的自由同样具有破坏性。
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
我认为，自由和文明的社会不会孤立地关押囚犯。
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
新闻自由本身不是目的，而是实现自由社会的一种手段。
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
不同意见的自由并不局限于无关紧要的事。那将仅仅是自由的影子。对其实质内容的检验是，有权对触及现有秩序核心的事物持不同意见。
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom.
除了好人，没有人会真心热爱自由;其余的人不爱自由。