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种族歧视
Racism
It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.
在这个时代,资助那些制造种族歧视言论的艺术将是困难的。
We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.
我们都是亚当的后裔,我们都是种族通婚的产物。
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
我们怎么能听到黑人司机中要求自由的呼声最高呢?
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
我和白人女性约会。这让很多人不开心,尤其是黑人女性。
One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.
在这个国家,几乎每天每小时都会发生一起仇恨犯罪。
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
只有时间、教育和良好的教育才能使反种族隔离发挥作用。
You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
未来几年,人们将根据你在任内对种族灭绝的反应来评判你。
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.
我认为在我们南方的词汇表中被滥用最多的是黑人和白人。
Certainly I think the issue of race as a factor will not go away from this equation.
当然,我认为种族问题作为一个因素不会从这个等式中消失。
Quiet example demonstrated to millions new ways to confront the evil of segregation.
这个安静的例子向数百万人展示了对抗种族隔离罪恶的新方法。
Modern man…is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
现代人受的教育是懂得外语和误解外国人。
Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
这个国家的种族问题仍然是一个不容讨论的问题。
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You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.
你知道,我不常打种族牌。我有一半黑人血统,一半白人血统,我很自豪——我的皮肤是棕色的。全世界都把我看作一个黑人,但我的母亲并没有把我当作一个黑人抚养成人。她没有把我当白人养大。
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。
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。
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
那么,为了理解白人至上主义,我们必须摒弃白人可以给任何人自由的错误观念。
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。
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。