A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
种族歧视
Racism
I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.
我并没有做很多,但这是一个做得更多的机会,把它带到这个领域,甚至更多,但事实上,它是一个黑人超级英雄,这对我来说是一个催化剂。
We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.
我们认为,一个重要和不可逆转的进程正在白人中间发生。就像对待黑人一样,白人目前也在克服心理障碍。
Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle of the road. I don't know what kind of magic my mojo is working, but it's working.
成为任何种族的剧作家都是困难的,上帝知道,你离路中间越远,就越困难。我不知道我的魔咒起了什么作用,但它起作用了。
I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough!
我只希望每一个负责任和关心此事的人,不管种族和性别,退后一步,仔细看看当今世界到底发生了什么,说够了就够了!
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。
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.
我认为很讽刺的是,大多数人认为班卓琴是南方白人的乐器。它来自非洲,甚至在白人演奏班卓琴的最初几年里,他们都会把自己的脸涂成黑色。
The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.
南部非洲被少数民族控制的整个地区正在经历持续和经常的游击活动,或面临着开始游击活动的高级准备工作。
A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.
很多事情,我不能进入房间,甚至只是为了被看到,是因为他们只是在说‘不’。他们不是在演非白人。“你被归入了非白人的一类。
I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.
我每隔几周去欧洲旅行一次。我刚从伦敦、荷兰和丹麦回来。这个星球上的每个国家都有自己的种族问题,我不确定是否每个人都找到了解决的办法。
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。
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
解构种族概念不仅与人们倾向于根据共同血统来划分和建立家族史相冲突,而且忽视了生物学家对非人类物种的研究。
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。
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He always had such a fierce determination to fight segregation in every possible way.
他总是有如此强烈的决心,要用一切可能的方式反对种族隔离。
I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.
我召集了来自医疗保健、商业、学术机构和社区的专家,为消除波士顿市医疗保健方面的种族和民族差异制定了一份全面的蓝图。
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。
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
非洲是一片火海。在内心深处,如果我们真的接受非洲人与我们是平等的,我们就会做得更多来扑灭这场大火。我们拿着饮水机站在那里,而我们真正需要的是消防队。
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 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。