It does not take a majority to prevail but rather a tireless, irate minority, keen to set brush fires in the minds.

  • -- Samuel Adams 塞缪尔·亚当斯

获胜并不需要多数人的支持,而是需要不知疲倦、愤怒的少数人的支持,他们渴望在头脑中点燃一团灌木丛。

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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则,即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风,但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利,而平等的法律必须保护这些权利,侵犯这些权利就是压迫。

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

不能假设今天的大多数人是“正确的”,而阿米什人和其他类似的人是“错误的”。一种奇怪甚至不稳定但不干涉他人权益的生活方式不应因其不同而受到谴责。

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

当少数人是正确的时候,永远不要害怕与他们站在一起,因为正确的少数人终有一天会成为多数。

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it.

自由是我们在生活中唯一必须要求的东西,因为所有其他美好的东西都源于它。

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

每次我们不利用别人的弱点时,我们都会成长一点。

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

什么是邪教?这只是意味着没有足够的人成为少数。