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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Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

因此,关于道德多数的争论不仅来自其观点,而且来自其名称——在许多人看来,这似乎意味着只有一套公共政策是道德的,而且只有一种多数可能是正确的。

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.

我要走出去,让所有人聚在一起,说我认为我们应该为子孙后代保护好这一点。现在,让我们开始工作,在这片土地上走走,谈谈冲突,让每个人都参与进来。

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

上帝是一切小原则中的大原则,没有原则的上帝是不能设想自己的,如果他要这样做,他就必须知道他自己的原则。

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

语言并不擅长描述复杂、奇怪的视觉事物。你可以试一试,读者的脑海中会有一些图像,但文字并不擅长这些。

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。

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

当我们处于少数时,勇气的考验就来了。当我们占多数的时候,宽容的考验就来了。

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

迫害对他们产生了自然的影响。它为他们找到了一个教派;这使他们成为一个派系。

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

我在思想(和原则)上是激进的,在方法(和行为)上是保守的。

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

很难知道公众人物的内心想法是什么。

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

怀疑是一件厚重的盔甲,它重重阻碍而非保护。

Beware the tyranny of the minority.

当心少数人的暴政。