A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
种族歧视
Racism
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
如果黑人永远被排除在生产环境之外，而且目前的歧视还在继续，他们就没有什么可做的了。
A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
一个自由的社会将忍受非官方的、私人的歧视，即使这意味着允许充满仇恨的团体根据肤色将人们排除在外。
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
奴隶制并不是这场争论中出现的唯一问题。对你们来说，还有一个重要得多的问题，那就是，如何对待自由的黑人?
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
孟菲斯市已经证明，如果黑人敢于保护自己不受白人的侵害或成为他的竞争对手，那么无论是品格还是地位都对他毫无帮助。
Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
偏见就像你脸上的一根头发。你看不见它，你用手指也找不到它，但你不停地刷它，因为它的感觉很刺激。
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.
我不认为有太多的文学作品。我认为大部分都是基于种族的，人们不认为这是阶级文学。
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
我总是为为什么黑人要首当其冲地受到别人的蔑视而烦恼。如果我们不能完全理解和微笑，我们就会突然变成恶魔。
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
南方的白人是这个国家最大的少数民族。他们应该得到考虑和理解，而不是迫害扭曲的宣传。
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。
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
黑人从白人男子对其种族的妇女犯下的这一罪行中所遭受的痛苦远远超过白人从他的罪行中所遭受的痛苦。
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.
在世界历史上，帮助建立同一文化的不一定是同一种族，同一种族的人也不一定都参与同一种文化。
But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.
但确实，一些杂志的封面上只有一定数量的黑人女孩。内奥米是正确的。这不公平，我希望它能改变。
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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。
There is no such thing as a black middle class.
没有所谓的黑人中产阶级。
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。
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。
It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
一个种族跪在地上，和平共处是不够的。
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。