The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

  • -- Audre Lorde 罗尔蒂

主人的工具永远拆不开主人的房子。他们可能允许我们暂时在他自己的游戏中打败他,但他们永远不会允许我们带来真正的改变。

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A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

我们需要的是一个好的动机:没有教条主义的同情,没有复杂的哲学;只要理解他人是人类的兄弟姐妹,尊重他们的人权和尊严。我们人类能够互相帮助是我们人类特有的能力之一。

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

我们需要一件有两个口袋的外套。一个口袋里有灰尘,另一个口袋里有金子。我们需要一件有两个口袋的外套来提醒我们是谁。

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

要像太阳或大海一样仁慈,但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住,那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

当历史发生重大变化时,当涉及重大原则时,大多数人通常是错误的。少数人是对的。

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

每个革命者最终不是成为压迫者就是成为异教徒。

The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.

宇宙在转变;我们的生活是我们的思想创造的。

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

每个社会都尊重活着的墨守成规者和死去的捣乱者。

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

如果我们不给他们自尊,他们就不能剥夺我们的自尊。