One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Huge, and one of the things that I argue in this book and also in the Princeton Projiect on National Security which I co-directed with John Ikenberry over the last three years is we have been singel-mindedly focused on the war on terror.

很大，我在这本书中试图说明一点,在普林斯顿国家安全项目中也试着强调,这一项目在过去3年内由我和约翰伊肯伯里共同负责,那就是我们仅仅盯在了一点上,我们盯着恐怖主义战争不放。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选