A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
种族歧视
Racism
To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
挑出一个特定的群体，说我们不能拿他们开玩笑，这几乎是一种偏见，有点居高人下的意味。
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
不要通过将人们划分为性别、种族、民族、语言或其他诸如此类的法律类别来划分社会。
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。
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
我成了一些流氓的实验品，他们以为我可以受到伤害，吓唬我，把其他黑人艺人从南方拒之门外。
People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.
人们会给我写恐吓信。当我还是白人的时候，我怎么敢代表西班牙裔呢?我试图让他们明白这是种族歧视。
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
许多妇女不认为自己受到歧视;没有更好的证据可以证明它们的条件作用的全面性。
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。
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
黑人政治的危机只能通过发展多阶级、多种族、进步的政治结构来解决。
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
我认为我们这一代人创造的最美妙的事情之一就是我们可以说，‘嘿，我不喜欢白人。’
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
如果我们要选出三分之一的人类中最聪明、最有想象力、精力最充沛、情绪最稳定的人，那么所有的种族都会出现。
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.
我相信黑人的鲜血是有价值的，而且对我是有好处的——尽管它有时使我的一生蒙受巨大的耻辱和悲伤。
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
我从来没有怀疑过种族隔离制度——因为它本身本质上是邪恶的——最终会被消灭。
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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。
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。
It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.
这甚至不再是关于黑人和白人的问题了，因为很多人来自不同的背景和不同的种族，这是一个很好的时机，能够把所有这些融合在一起。
Modern man…is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
现代人受的教育是懂得外语和误解外国人。
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
有时候我觉得说唱音乐几乎是阻止种族歧视的关键。