Yet Hooks' family exposed him early on to what civil rights activists of his generation came to call the Freedom Struggle.

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Freedom was a kind of an accident that came about because the usual ways of doing things were not possible.

自由的产生和发展是非常偶然的,因为照正常发展是不可能出现的

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How is it that some people came to acquire this capacity for rational self-control that is necessary for freedom ? and others seem to lack it?

为何有些人,会拥有这种理性自控的能力,那也是自由的必备条件,但有些人却似乎不具备这种能力？

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I have the freedom to pass that person because I like the trend. Suppose I have somebody else who came here with two years of chemistry in high school, got a 95 on the first test, 70 on the second test, failed the third test, failed the final, has an aggregate score of 48.

我能够选择让那人通过,因为我喜欢他的进步，假设另一个同学,学了2年的化学在高中,第一次测试得到95分，第二次70分，第三次没通过，期末考也没通过。

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The institutions and the ideas therefore, that provide for freedom and improvement in the material conditions of life, cannot take root and flourish without an understanding of how they came about and what challenges they have had to surmount.

故此,这些机制和理念,为物质生活条件的自由和改善,提供了基础,但在不知道其根源且,无法预料的挑战之前,机制和理念是不可能扎根的

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