A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
种族歧视
Racism
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
女人应该对黑人的错误感到一种特殊的同情，因为像他一样，她也被指责智力低下，不能享有接受博雅教育的特权。
A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.
一项新的民意调查显示，克里参议员在南方黑人中的支持率最高。克里对南方黑人的吸引力是显而易见的。他是一个住在很远很远地方的白人。
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
“爵士乐”对我来说意味着最糟糕的工作环境，最糟糕的文化偏见。“爵士”一词的意思是对黑人音乐家的虐待和剥削。
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。
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.
在这种情况下，废奴主义者和同情者之间的实际区别，对于一个失去了奴隶而又无法恢复奴隶的人来说，是非常模糊的。
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!”
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
平权法案成功的一个讽刺之处在于黑人社区的中产阶级基本上不再生活在“黑人社区”中。
And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.
平权法案是一个很好的术语，用来描述在工作、就业、晋升、奖学金和大学录取等方面对更优秀的白人的种族歧视。
I learned in New Jersey that to be a Negro meant, precisely, that one was never looked at but was simply at the mercy of the reflexes the color of one’s skin caused in other people.
我在新泽西学到，作为一个黑人，确切地说，意味着一个人从来没有被注视过，而仅仅是受他人对自己肤色的反射所支配。
I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.
我读了剧本，我知道这是一个很好的部分。这是为一位白人演员写的。这就是我所面临的——我必须努力让我的角色不是黑人写的。
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。
My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.
我们这代人不仅在书评中受到诽谤，在研究生院受到攻击，而且我们活着看到我们可爱的女儿们在想，为什么女权主义成了一个肮脏的字眼。
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So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.
所以现在我觉得自己很幸运，因为我可以更仔细地选择一些角色，这有点棘手，因为作为一个黑人女演员，没有那么多的角色可以选择。
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。
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
从你获得诺贝尔和平奖的那一刻起，就是我昨天说的那些话，没有人太在意，我获得诺贝尔和平奖后也说了同样的话——哦!这对人们来说非常重要，它帮助了我们的士气，因为种族隔离看起来确实是不可战胜的。
Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.
偏见是一种病。当他们为你而来，或拒绝你的价值时，我必为他们的石头做好准备。我属于你。
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
民族主义是一种幼稚的疾病。它是人类的麻疹。
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。