A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
种族歧视
Racism
I chose my black people struggling, my country people, all country people, in the world.
我选择了奋斗的黑人,我的国家的人民,全世界的人民。
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
摆脱陪审团的职责很容易。诀窍是说你对所有种族都有偏见。
Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
当然,每个种族群体内部的个体差异很大,应该这样对待。
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
我的潜力超出了我的种族或民族身份所能表达的范围。
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
我们为种族融合所付出的代价之一就是黑人社会的瓦解。
The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
无法逃离新奥尔良以躲避风暴的主要是黑人。
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
当你生活在恐怖和种族隔离的力量下,你永远无法开始创作一件艺术品。
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
发挥一个人的力量有两种方式:一种是向下推,另一种是向上拉。
We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it.
我们将与种族毁灭作殊死搏斗,决不与之共存。
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
因此,即使是黑人的学校,也必须让他们相信自己的低人一等。
Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.
拉美裔人在工作中受伤的几率比其他族裔高得多。
Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them.
为什么要因为一个人的肤色而憎恨他,其实有更好的理由去憎恨他。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
监狱就像我们这个时代的集中营。很多人进去后就再也出不来了,主要是黑人和拉丁美洲人。
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
一个种族的真正价值必须以其女性特征来衡量。
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
平权法案成功的一个讽刺之处在于黑人社区的中产阶级基本上不再生活在“黑人社区”中。
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。
Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
非洲人需要被踢,这是他们唯一能理解的。