Whitman believed democracy is meant to honor the rights of every person and the equality of all people.

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is to see through the group of human rights, if there are certain levels of social justice that we can ensure for every last person simply because they are human.

它提出要看到所有这些人权的本质，如果存在不同层次的社会正义,我们就要保证每个人获得某种程度的正义,就因为他们是人。

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So stop thinking about yourself as a person with rights, so thinking about yourself as a part of a whole society, all these people having responsibilities to one another, and those are most important.

别把你自己看成是一个有权利的个人，把你自己看成是整个社会的一部分，人人都对彼此负有责任，这些是最重要的事情。

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