A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.
我认为人们有权在没有许可证的情况下游行。当你有几十万人在街上时,你就得到了许可。
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.
是我们,人民;不是我们,白人男性公民;我们这些男性公民也不知道;但是我们,所有组成联邦的人民。
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
任何重要的事情都不能由人民投票决定。我们只能投票给某个人;我们从来没有投票决定他要做什么。
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
南斯拉夫是一个多民族社会,它只有在生活在其中的所有国家完全平等的条件下才能生存。
Extreme freedom can’t be expected to lead to anything but a change to extreme slavery, whether for a private individual or for a city.
无论对个人还是对一个城市来说,极端自由只能导致极端奴隶制的改变。
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
当社会结构僵化到无法迅速改变时,社会动荡和革命就会带来调整。
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
我们对南非的设想是,黑人和白人将在和平与繁荣的条件下平等地生活和工作。
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
我认为敌人是自我审查。在一个自由的社会里,最大的危险是你害怕到审查自己的程度。
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
自由,就像特权一样,普遍存在或共同受到威胁,你不能伤害或努力实现一个而不伤害或促进所有的自由。
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
我的女权主义是人文主义,最弱的是我所代表的人,这包括很多生命和生命形式,包括一些男人。
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
一个遍布全国的集体暴君,并不比一个坐在宝座上的暴君更令人接受。
Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.
保守派和我们的朋友在很多问题上有不同的看法。选举决定了结果如何。
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Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
但是,如果不从妇女的角度理解和平,就不可能实现平等和发展。
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。
The mountains look on Marathon--- And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.
山望马拉松——马拉松望大海;独自在那里沉思了一个小时,我梦见希腊可能仍然是自由的。
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。
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 of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
表达自由是矩阵,是几乎所有其他形式的自由不可或缺的条件。