We believe that that ethos we call religious pluralism actually is absolutely key to peace in the world.

我们相信我们称作宗教多元主义的社会风气,绝对是世界和平的关键。

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In this world nothing is perfectly round, nothing is perfectly beautiful, nothing is perfectly just.

这个世界没有正圆,没有什么是绝对漂亮的,没有绝对的正义

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I think what we do in America whatever people might say about we're on a way up or we're on a way down, we still have vast power in team influence on what's going in this world Absolutely. -with the kind of financial and leadership role.

我认为我们在美国所做的,无论人们如何评价,我们在前进或在倒退，我们仍然拥有巨大的力量,对于世界的发展有着极大的影响,绝对是，-因为我们拥有巨大的金融实力,以及领导作用。

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But in their worldview, the pro-slavery worldview, ideas like freedom and liberty were simply never absolutes, and many of them will directly reverse Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and simply say, "Nobody is born equal."

但是在他们的世界观中,亲奴主义者的世界观中,自由和解放的理想永远不是绝对的,他们中许多人,直接颠覆了托马斯杰斐逊的独立宣言,他们说,没有人是生来平等的

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