When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

  • -- Gerrit Smith 赫里特·史密斯

当一个好人投身于奴隶制的倡导时,他必须至少在一段时间内,在他的新思想、学说和推理模式中,感到自己除了在家里之外,什么地方都是自在的。

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It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

黑人很难做自己。我们花了太多的时间来捍卫一些无法捍卫的东西,因为没有什么可以捍卫的。

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

把一切事物和事物的原则都看成是不固定的模式或风尚,已越来越成为现代思想的倾向。

And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.

漫步在斑驳的长草间,采摘月亮上的银苹果,太阳上的金苹果,直到时光流逝。

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

你可以试一试,但你永远想象不出,拥有男人的天赋,还要忍受做女孩的苦役是什么滋味。

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

我们必须继续根据奴隶制是什么来判断它,而不是根据你告诉我们它将是什么,或者可能是什么来判断。

It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

在没有任何理由的情况下,仅仅扮演一个恶棍并不那么有趣。

It is easy to confuse a fantasy for a reality.

人们很容易把幻想和现实混淆起来。