If you get into the fifth century, late in the fifth century, Thucydides in his history has one of his generals speak to his men and say,"Men are the polis."

如果你回到五世纪,在五世纪末,修昔底德在他的年代就曾经,希腊历史学家,代表作《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》 对人民做过一次演讲,他说"人就是城邦"

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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

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