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种族歧视
Racism
Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.
只有白人男性才有忽视种族的奢侈。
The so-called white races are really pinko-grey.
所谓的白人实际上是粉灰色的。
Racism? But isn’t it only a form of misanthropy?
种族歧视吗?但这难道不只是一种厌世情绪吗?
There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.
没有理由给我们贴上反犹主义的标签。
I want the white people to understand my people.
我希望白人理解我的人民。
Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.
私营企业应该受到歧视。
Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.
种族是一个存在的层次,但不是一个顶点。
Segregation has no place in the education system.
种族隔离在教育体系中没有立足之地。
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
太多的白人仍然将黑人视为一个独立的群体。
I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
我不赞成任何形式的歧视。
Every single thing in my life is built around race.
我生命中的每一件事都是围绕着种族而建立的。
I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.
我是黑人,因为世界就是这么看我的。
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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。
I chose my black people struggling, my country people, all country people, in the world.
我选择了奋斗的黑人,我的国家的人民,全世界的人民。
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。
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。
Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.
有时我的种族是相关的,有时不是。我绝对是两全其美。
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
如果有人说黑人应该感到满足……让他说,他愿意改变自己的肤色,到大城市的黑人区去生活。只有到那时,他才有权提出这样的要求。