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种族歧视
Racism
But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
但是,即使是旨在实现更大多样性的种族中立政策和招聘努力,最终也不是种族中立的。
I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.
我知道我没有得到很多好角色的唯一原因是因为我是拉丁人——他们经常当面告诉我。
I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.
我认为,对于很多所谓的后殖民民族来说,有一种不太合法、不够纯洁的感觉。
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
集体恐惧会激发群体的本能,并倾向于对那些不被视为群体成员的人产生凶残的行为。
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
仅仅是一个黑人不能使你了解种族情况,正如生病不能使你成为医学专家一样。
The status of ‘native’ is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.
“土著”的地位是殖民者在征得被殖民者同意的情况下,在他们中间引入并维持的一种紧张状态。
I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.
我意识到嫁给一个白人可能对我不利——有些人会因此而反对我。
One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.
一个穿黑袍是为了把白人吓得半死,而另一个穿白袍是为了把黑人吓得半死。
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
我不想把所有黑人都带回非洲;有些黑人在这里不行,在那里也一样不行。
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
我希望人们最终会意识到只有一个“种族”——人类——我们都是它的成员。
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
偏见必须被教授。如果你听到你的父母贬低女性或不同背景的人,为什么,你要这么做。
Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.
相信没有人比别人更好。你知道我是在南方长大的。我大四那年,种族关系非常紧张。
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Quiet example demonstrated to millions new ways to confront the evil of segregation.
这个安静的例子向数百万人展示了对抗种族隔离罪恶的新方法。
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
在自由和平等的令人振奋的秋天到来之前,黑人合法的不满的酷暑将不会过去。
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
古实人岂能改变皮肤呢。豹岂能改变斑点呢。
Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels.
那些日子非常艰难。我所有的队友都是白人,那是一个不同的时代。我不能和白人球员一起出去吃饭;我只好等着,直到有人把什么东西搬到车上。我们不能住在同一家旅馆里。
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。