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种族歧视
Racism
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
黑人和其他种族的人有着完全相同的缺点和优点。
There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
巴林没有种族清洗,没有大规模种族灭绝,没有杀害无辜人民的政策。
In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
归根结底,没有任何种族隔离主义方案能够经受住一个简单理念的力量:法律下的平等。
We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
我们在棉花俱乐部没有任何种族隔离。不。棉花俱乐部是完全开放的,是免费的。
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
一个国家是一个因对其祖先的误解和对邻国的共同仇恨而团结在一起的社会。
People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.
人们倾向于把长相和行为不同的人与非法或不道德的行为联系起来。
'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.
“永不再犯”是所有相信人类必须站出来反对种族灭绝的人的战斗口号。
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
在你们自己为自由而战之前,这个种族问题不会得到解决。
The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
今天实行种族隔离的学校可以说并不比过去实行种族隔离的学校更平等。
I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.
我知道歧视是存在的,尽管有很多人没有偏见。
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
任何形式的偏执或偏见都不仅仅是一个问题;这是我们社会中根深蒂固的罪恶。
Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
宝贝,在白人推销商抓住我之前,黑人推销商就开始压迫我了。别跟我谈皮肤。
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Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases.
黑人病人的治疗要晚得多。他们通常没有得到白人病人会得到的那种疼痛管理,而且他们死于疾病的几率更大。
By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
在我上大学的时候,我对种族歧视问题变得非常警觉,我记得我最初的一次写作尝试与私刑有关。
When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.
当我和黑人或白人在一起时,我总是站在中间。尤其是当我和黑人在一起的时候;他们会告诉我他们对白人的感觉,而不管我也是白人,也有白人亲戚。这很有趣,也很困难。
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。
Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
每个城镇都有两个相同的购物中心:一个是白人去的,另一个是白人过去常去的。
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。