2024年4月23日发(作者：)

Lesson 1

1. A white lie is better than a black lie.

一个无关紧要的谎言总比一个恶意的谎言要好。

2. To upset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affirmation

of his own Olympian manhood.

为了挫败各种蓄意培植的低人一等的心态，黑人必须直起腰来宣布自己高贵的人格。

3. …with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must throw off

the manacles of self-abnegation…

黑人必须一种竭尽全力自尊自重的精神，大胆抛弃自我克制的枷锁。

4. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and

abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

必须懂得没有爱的权利是毫无节制的、易被滥用的，而没有权利的爱则是多愁善感、

脆弱无力的。

5. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which

constitutes the major crisis of our times.

正是这种邪恶的权利和没有权势的道义的冲突构成了我们时代的主要危机。

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6. Now early in this century this proposal would have been greeted with

ridicule and denunciation, as destructive of initiative and responsibility.

在本世纪之初，这种建议会受到嘲笑和谴责，认为它对主动性和责任感其负面作用。

7. The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work

which extends knowledge and increases power and enriched literature and

elevates thought, is not done to secure a living.

事实上，人们从事改善人类出镜的工作，从事传播知识、增强实力、丰富文学财富以

及升华思想的工作并不是为了谋生。

8. …it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two

feet right here on earth.

它能够花费几十亿美元帮助上帝的孩子自立于这个世界。

9. Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been successful unless the

violent minority had the sympathy and support of the nonresistant majority.

除非主张暴力的少数人得到大多数人的同情与支持，不和他们对抗，否则，暴力革命

很少或者说几乎没有成功的。

10. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but is bends towards

justice.

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