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.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

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。

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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。

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

我怀着这些见解,请各位先生们,像我刚才那样,冷静地回顾事实和原则,来看待这个问题。

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

人们必须团结起来,一起工作。我厌倦了白人对我们施加的那种压迫,现在仍在试图施加这种压迫。

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

总而言之,伙计,如果你没有意识到,你无法保护自己不被迎面扑来的干草机伤害。

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

我们知道我们面临着困难。作为少数派,我们知道这是一个多么困难的挑战。

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

原则最有用的地方是,它总是可以为权宜之计而牺牲。

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

如果你的思想不支配她的话,灵魂是她自己行动的一个非常完美的判断者。

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

如果作家只是坐着谈论压迫,他们就不会有太多写作。

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

你不可能一直取悦所有人,但你可以取悦大多数人。

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

每一种新观点,从一开始就只占少数。

I don't mind giving everyone a shock including myself.

我不介意给每个人一个打击,包括我自己。

The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese.

联合国在那里是为了保护其他卢旺达人。