A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
种族歧视
Racism
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'
我的第一个大学室友以震惊的沉默向我打招呼，然后说:“所以……你是黑人。”
I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.
我是一个被遗弃的人，一半是黑人，一半是塞米诺尔人。
I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
我曾经收到过这样的信件:“我不知道黑人孩子和白人孩子是一样的。”
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
难道我们不该因为一个人的举止与我们的不同，因为他的皮肤是黑色的，就不信任他吗?
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
几代人以来，甚至许多体面的南方白人也学会了鄙视黑人。
Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.
有时我的种族是相关的，有时不是。我绝对是两全其美。
If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
如果你看到一个黑人家庭，这是抢劫，但如果是一个白人家庭，他们在寻找食物。
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
我多么希望我们生活在一个没有法律保护我们免受歧视的时代。
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
这个白人不是非洲的原住民。非洲是属于非洲人的。津巴布韦是属于津巴布韦人的。
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
谁想获得自由就必须自己动手。宁为自由而死，不作奴隶而活。
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
棒球运动中没有歧视的余地。它是我们国家的消遣和全民游戏。
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
不是南方的人民制造了种族问题，而是人民在执政。
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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。
You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
你从来没见过黑人小孩做的哥伦布。从来没有。他们总是说，‘我们不能相信它发生在这里。我们不能相信是这些郊区的白人孩子。“只有他们!”
'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
“忠于自己的根”是“待在自己的贫民区”的自由派版本。
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
从你获得诺贝尔和平奖的那一刻起，就是我昨天说的那些话，没有人太在意，我获得诺贝尔和平奖后也说了同样的话——哦!这对人们来说非常重要，它帮助了我们的士气，因为种族隔离看起来确实是不可战胜的。
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
长期以来给黑人带来不便，剥夺了他们发展的机会，他们自然害怕任何听起来像是歧视的东西。
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。