"You are always going to have racism, you are always going to have sexism, you are always going to have classism, that is something that we cannot change in one fell swoop, but with work and efforts like what is being done at IMAN, we chip away at that, one person,one character, one idea at a time."

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

All I needed to do was to chip away the excess stone, to get rid of the marble that shouldn't have been there.

我只要凿去多余的石头，只留下有用的。

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That's when you really get to chip away.

这是你真正开始凿掉的时候。

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