There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

  • -- Elie Wiesel 埃利·维瑟尔

我们可能有时无力阻止不公正,但绝不能有任何时候不进行抗议。

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Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

你要知道人们会服从什么,你就会知道他们会受到多少不公正和错误的惩罚;这种情况将继续下去,直到有人用言语或拳头,或两者兼而有之加以抵抗。暴君的极限是由他们压迫的人的忍耐力决定的。

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

我们的国家正处于危机之中。我们的人民正在遭受痛苦。现在是我们所有人都必须抵制以国家为代价保护自己地盘的传统自私呼声的时候了。是时候离开角落,加入牺牲,来到房间的中心,成为解决方案的一部分。

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

毫无疑问,良心足以引导最冷酷的人走上美德之路;热情之于良知,犹如荣誉之于责任;我们身上有一种多余的灵魂,当美好的事物完成后,把它奉献给美丽的事物是很甜蜜的。

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.

我们这些今天准备为这一事业冒生命危险的人,如果我们只能组织一个新的社会制度,而不能组织一个更正义的社会制度,就会后悔曾经动过一根手指。

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.

我们尽自己最大的努力去雕琢构成我们生命的那块神秘的石头是徒劳的,命运的黑色血液不断地重新出现。

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

如此贞洁的行为几乎令人震惊,因为这个康德式的人物在她的子宫里是如此匆忙。

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

人们钦佩那些能把自己的愿望和思想用石头、木头、钢铁和黄铜组织起来的人。

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

我的投球哲学很简单——让球远离球棒。

I don't want your duty kisses. They taste bitter.

我不要你的责任之吻。他们都是苦的。

Remember that lost time does not return.

记住,失去的时间不会再回来。