With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

  • -- Robert Toombs 图姆斯

有了这些普通和非凡的巨大优势,人们会以为北方会心满意足,至少会尊重这些顺从而有益的兄弟们的安全与安宁;但这不是人类的本性。

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The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine. They just think I'm a strange tiger who walks on two legs.

他们听到的第一个声音是我的,他们感觉到的第一个触摸是我的,他们看到的第一张人脸是我的。他们只是认为我是一只用两条腿走路的奇怪的老虎。

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

除了迫在眉睫的被释放的威胁,男人唯一能感到真正安全的地方可能就是最高安全级别的监狱。

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

创造奇迹者的方法是把人类所有的行为看成两件事:要么是爱,要么是对爱的呼唤。

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

没有什么比安全更危险的了。