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种族歧视
Racism
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
如果我告诉你,作为一名黑人棒球运动员,我没有经历过比队友更糟糕的时期,那我就是在说谎。
We don’t want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can’t improve something that is intrinsically evil.
我们不想让种族隔离制度自由化。我们希望拆除它。你无法改善本质上邪恶的东西。
I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
我厌倦了人们表现得好像,你知道,黑人男女从不互相帮助,从不互相支持。
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
对大多数白人来说,爵士乐意味着黑人,爵士乐意味着肮脏,而我不演奏爵士乐。我演奏黑人古典音乐。
Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
今天的大多数黑人罪犯已经认识到,在一个不公正的秩序下,他们是最受虐待的受害者。
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
只有彻底消除强制性挑战,才能结束陪审团选举中的种族歧视。
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
我们必须意识到种族的概念是错误的。世界上只有一个种族,人类。
I'm not into the Oscar and Emmys as much as I used to be because I'm tired of looking at people who don't look like me.
我不像以前那么喜欢奥斯卡和艾美奖了,因为我厌倦了看着那些和我长得不一样的人。
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
因为肤色而憎恨别人是错误的。不管哪种颜色会让人讨厌。这是完全错误的。
People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.
人们必须认识到,出于对一个群体的种族或族裔偏见而犯下的罪行就是对我们所有人犯下的罪行。
As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.
作为未来的词曲作者,我们对黑人音乐感兴趣,而且只对黑人音乐感兴趣。我们想为黑人的声音写歌。
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
一旦你开始以种族为理由解释或原谅所有事件,你就开始沉迷于种族的危险神话。
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As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.
事实上,他们会抹黑我们。我想这是有原因的根据白人想让我们看起来像什么。他想让我们看看——如果我们是黑人,那么他就知道我们长什么样。
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。
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
如果有人说黑人应该感到满足……让他说,他愿意改变自己的肤色,到大城市的黑人区去生活。只有到那时,他才有权提出这样的要求。
If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
如果我们对少数民族如此残忍,他们为什么还来这里?为什么他们不偷偷越过墨西哥边境去找塔利班?
Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.
这再一次证实了,不存在基因上对不同种族的纯粹分类。
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!”