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种族歧视
Racism
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
为什么我生来就有一张不同的脸?为什么我不像其他种族的人一样出生?
We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
我们只有一项任务,那就是坚定立场,毫不留情地进行种族斗争。
I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
我相信歧视仍然存在于社会中,我们必须以各种形式与之斗争。
Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.
玻利维亚是一个以土著人为主的国家,但这一多数一直被排除在外。
He always had such a fierce determination to fight segregation in every possible way.
他总是有如此强烈的决心,要用一切可能的方式反对种族隔离。
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
废除单独的黑人大学会遭到校友和其他黑人的反对。
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
在我的两个障碍中,女性比黑人在我的道路上设置了更多的障碍。
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
我们可以举出反对解放和谴责废奴主义者的黑人的例子。
It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.
因为一些你穿的衣服而被隔离是一种折磨。
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
只要白人说一出戏不错,剧院里就挤满了黑人和白人。
To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
在这个水平上否认种族的预测有效性是不科学和不现实的。
I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.
我不认为一个人的肤色决定了他是否处于劣势。
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People who discriminate doesn't understand that they are a stranger to others.
歧视别人的人不知道他们对别人是陌生人。
So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.
因此,作为一个前奏,白人必须意识到,他们只是人类,并非优越。和黑人一样。他们必须认识到,他们也是人,而不是下等人。
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
我第一次在亚特兰大坐车时,看到售票员——所有的售票员都是白人——请一位黑人妇女站起来,坐到靠后的座位上,以便给一位白人男子让座。我还看到白人被要求离开汽车的黑人区。
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
有些白人讨厌黑人,有些白人喜欢黑人,有些黑人讨厌白人,有些黑人喜欢白人。所以你看,这不是一个黑白分明的问题,这是一个爱与恨的问题。
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
在他所上的几乎每一门课上,在他所读的几乎每一本书中,黑人的劣等思想都在他脑海中根深蒂固。
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
对任何青年来说,最大的伤害莫过于让他感到,因为他属于这个或那个种族,无论他自己的功绩或努力如何,他都会在生活中获得进步。