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种族歧视
Racism
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
尽管这个国家自豪地认为自己是一个民族大熔炉，但在种族问题上，我们在很多方面一直是并将继续是一个本质上由懦夫组成的国家。
Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
很多人害怕谈论种族，因为它承载了太多的情感。我们没有足够的词汇来谈论它。每一天，我们的词汇量似乎越来越不足。
I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.
我想很多人都不知道我们的学校再一次变得如此严重的种族隔离。大多数教科书教我们的高中生的东西都是不诚实的。
All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.
所有伟大的工作都是为我之后的人准备的。最高法院决定不给我，所以他们给了两个白人。我想这就是他们一直在等待的。
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
另一个人说得好，教育一个学生，他的黑脸是一种诅咒，他改变自己状况的努力是无望的，以此来阻碍他，这是最糟糕的私刑。
When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.
当我去见别人的时候——我现在偶尔会卖一个广告——我从来没有说过，‘帮帮我，因为我是黑人’或者‘帮帮我，因为我是少数族裔’。“我总是说我们能为他们做些什么。
A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.
几年前，波士顿没有一家酒店或餐馆拒绝黑人客人;现在有几家旅馆、餐馆，尤其是糖果店，将不再接待黑人，即使是最好的黑人。
‘Slavery’s a thing thet depends on complexion, It’s God’s law thet fetters on black skins don’t chafe; Ef brains wuz to settle it (horrid reflection!) Wich of our onnable body’d be safe?’
“奴隶制度取决于肤色，这是上帝的律法，黑人皮肤上的镣铐不会磨破;如果你想解决这个问题(可怕的反思!)我们唯一的身体会安全吗?”
There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.
我的小学里有几个原住民，但是我们从来没有和他们说过话。他们闭口不谈，我们甚至从来没有真正地对视过。他们也没有得到官方承认。
I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you.
我过去常常对杰基(罗宾逊)说，有时候他们朝他扔东西，‘杰基，他们扔东西不是因为你是黑人。他们攻击你是因为他们不喜欢你。
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
我现在要证明的是，墨西哥人完全没有能力自治，只要我们与他们联系在一起，我们的自由、我们的财富和我们的生活就没有保障。
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.
如果你想把南方定义为一个贫穷的、种族关系恶劣的农村地区，那么南方只存在于地理上的零星地带，而大多数南方人已经不住在那里了。
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I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.
我认为现在的想法是让黑人来书写我们音乐的历史。是时候这么做了，因为白人一直在这么做。是我们自己动手的时候了，要实事求是。
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。
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。
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
因此，即使是黑人的学校，也必须让他们相信自己的低人一等。
People who discriminate doesn't understand that they are a stranger to others.
歧视别人的人不知道他们对别人是陌生人。
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。