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种族歧视
Racism
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
歧视是一只地狱之犬,它在黑人生活中每一个醒着的时刻都在啃食他们,提醒他们,在统治他们的社会里,他们低人一等的谎言被当作真理来接受。
Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
南方的种族隔离是诚实、公开和光明正大的。在北方和南方这两种制度或种族隔离的形式中,我认为哪一种更好是毫无疑问的。
Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
不知何故,我们不能生活在种族政治之外。在我们每个人的内心深处,都有某种东西在我们很小很小的时候就教会了我们。这是对他人的不尊重和恐惧。
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
但是假设上帝是黑人呢?如果我们升入天堂,我们一生都把黑人当作下等人对待,而上帝就在那里,我们抬头一看,发现他不是白人,那该怎么办?那么我们的反应是什么呢?
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.
我相信你们可以回去做一个图表显示所有对黑人男性的杀戮都是在经济困难时期增加的。事实上,去年有一个黑人被私刑处死。
White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!
白人,让我们站在一起,确保你们的人民和我的人民的生存,因为他们是一体的——他们是我们敬爱的、不可思议的、奇妙的、受祝福的、专横的白人!
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.
这种歧视并不是公开的,但是一个黑人到这样的地方去,就会被告知那里没有住宿,或者他被忽视了,或者在其他方面受到轻视,这样他就不会再来了。
I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if a war of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.
我一点也不同情文明人的自私行为,如果野兽和人类领主之间发生种族战争,我也会忍不住同情熊。
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.
任何决心要找到另一个人或群体不如自己的人,总是能找到一大堆理由来证明自己不如别人,因为我们都不如自己树立的人性理想。
I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
我也知道,虽然我是黑人,但我是一个人,因此我有权进入任何公共场所。白人不知道这一点。每次我想去一个地方,他们都会拦住我。
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.
南方白人视黑人为一个种族,对他的地位的提高毫无帮助;但对于某些人,他们有强烈的感情,并在许多方面帮助他们。
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。
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Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
每个城镇都有两个相同的购物中心:一个是白人去的,另一个是白人过去常去的。
There's something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It's pretty much for white supremacists.
互联网上有个东西叫白色抵抗手册。这几乎是为白人至上主义者准备的。
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。
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
我觉得女权运动排斥了黑人女性。你不能在传统的女权主义对话中谈论黑人和女性。
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
我想成为白人的兄弟,而不是他的姐夫。
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!”