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我们或许都会同意,自由——如果理解正确——可谓人间至福;其获得乃是我们作为公民矢志奋斗的真正目标。但是,当我们这样谈论自由时,我们应该仔细考虑我们所指为何。……当我们以自由的增加为尺度来衡量一个社会的进步时,我们实际上依据的是作为一个团体的所有公民拥有多大的力量来充分发挥自己的潜能。……假若真正的自由这一理想使人类社会所有成员充分发挥自己潜能的力量最大化,我们便有理由拒绝把自由的荣冠授予这样的国家:在那里,少数人地位的明显上升建立在多数人地位的下降之上。……
We may all agree that freedom - if understood correctly - is the best of all worlds; its acquisition is a true goal of our determination as citizens. However, when we talk about freedom in this way, we should carefully consider what we mean. ... When we measure the progress of a society on a free-rise scale, we are actually based on how much power all citizens as a community have to realize their full potential. ... If the ideal of true liberty maximizes the power of all members of humanity to realize their full potential, we have every reason to refuse to grant the crown of liberty to a country where there is a clear rise in the status of minorities based on the majority The decline in status of people above. ...