應許之地：歐巴馬回憶錄
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于管中2021-02-04The conviction that racism wasn’t inevitable may also explain my willingness to defend the American idea: what the country was, and what it could become.
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于管中2021-02-04What made some movements succeed where others failed? Was it a sign of success when portions of a cause were absorbed by conventional politics, or was it a sign that the cause had been hijacked? When was compromise acceptable and when was it selling out, and how did one know the difference?
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E.T.2021-01-24“there are people in the world who think only about themselves. They don’t care what happens to other people so long as they get what they want. They put other people down to make themselves feel important.“Then there are people who do the opposite, who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don’t do things that hurt people.“So,” she said, looking me squarely in the eye. “Which kind of person do you want to be?”
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熊仔面2020-12-13我的行动限制也愈来愈多。“自动自发”全然从我的人生销声匿迹。步行到杂货店或在人行道与陌生人闲聊，都不再是可行的事，或至少不再轻而易举。某天我向马文抱怨说：“我就像马戏团笼子里跳舞的熊。”
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MJB2021-09-16“I tried to put myself in W en’s shoes, having to integrate an economy that straddled the information age and feudalism while generating enough jobs to meet the demands of a population the size of North and South America combined. I would have sympathized more had I not known that high-ranking Com munist Party officials—including W en—had a habit of steering state contracts and licenses to family members and siphoning billions into offshore accounts.”
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豆乳盒子2021-03-26I took a serious look at our finances andput together a plan to pay down our debts. Inside the slower rhythms of my workand the pleasures of fatherhood, I began to consider options for a life after politics—perhaps teaching and writing full-time, or returning to law practice, orapplying for a job at a local charitable foundation, as my mother had onceimagined I’d do.
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乖乖龙地咚2021-02-19collective spirit, a thing we all know and wish for-a sense of connection that overrides our differences and replaces them with a giant swell of possibility-and like all things that matter most, you know the moment is fleeting and that soon the spell will be broken.
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罗马森林2021-01-03I tried to explain to her the conflict that I was feeling: between working for change within the system and pushing against it; wanting to lead but wanting to empower people to make change for themselves; wanting to be in politics but not of it.
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豆乳盒子2021-03-26In other words, following my ill-fated run for Congress, I experienced acertain letting go—if not of my desire to make a difference in the world, then atleast of the insistence that it had to be done on a larger stage. What might havebegun as a sense of resignation at whatever limits fate had imposed on my lifecame to feel more like gratitude for the bounty it had already delivered.
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豆乳盒子2021-03-15“If I remain hopeful, it’s because I’ve learned to place my faith in my fellow citizens, especially those of the next generation, whose conviction in the equal worth of all people seems to come as second nature, and who insist on making real those principles that their parents and teachers told them were true but perhaps never fully believed themselves.”
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熊仔面2020-11-29但是你无法选择时间，而是时间选择你。你要么抓住这可能是你这辈子唯一的机会，要么愿意在明明知道有机会却看着机会从你身边溜走。
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罗马森林2020-12-29I got lost in my head, preoccupied with questions that seemed to layer themselves one over the next. What made some movements succeed where others failed? Was it a sign of success when portions of a cause were absorbed by conventional politics, or was it a sign that the cause had been hijacked? When was compromise acceptable and when was it selling out, and how did one know the difference?
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罗马森林2020-12-29I was inspired by the young leaders of the civil rights movement--not just Dr. King but John Lewis and Bob Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and Diane Nash. In their heroic efforts--going door-to-dorr to register voters, sitting down at lunch counters, and marching to freedom songs--I saw the possibility of practicing the values my mother had taught me; how you could build power not by putting others down by lifting them up. This was true democracy at work--democracy not as a gift from on high, or a division of spoils between interest groups, but rather democracy that was earned, the work of everybody. The result was not just a change in material conditions but a sense of dignity for people and communities, a bond between those who had once seemed far apart.