We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

  • -- Barbara Jordan 芭芭拉·乔丹

我们是一个左右为难的民族。我们是一个追求未来的民族。我们是一个寻求民族共同体的民族。

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The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

南方的白人是这个国家最大的少数民族。他们应该得到考虑和理解,而不是迫害扭曲的宣传。

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

从现在的努力中解脱出来,仅仅意味着过去的努力已经积累起来了。

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

过去、现在和未来之间的区别只是一种顽固而持久的幻觉。

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

我最尊敬的人表现得好像他们是不朽的,社会是永恒的。