TED Salon Verizon
Ruby Sales: How we can start to heal the pain of racial division
魯比．賽爾斯: 如何開始治癒種族分裂的傷痛？
Filmed:
Readability: 4.3
1,666,064 views
社會運動參與者暨教育學家魯比．賽爾斯在遊歷了美國，探詢、深度檢視這個國家種族歧視的歷史包袱，並找尋痊癒的來源之後，提出了這個問題：「是哪裡在隱隱作痛呢？」她在這場動人的演說中分享她的學習，反思她在非裔美國人民權運動中做為自由鬥士的經歷，並提供新思維讓人們能繼續向種族平等的目標邁進。
Ruby Sales - Activist, scholar, educator
Ruby Sales has preached around the country on race, class, gender and reconciliation. Full bio
Ruby Sales has preached around the country on race, class, gender and reconciliation. Full bio
Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.
00:13
I want to share with you
0
1240
2120
我想要與你們分享
00:17
a moment in my life
1
5200
1840
我生命中的一個時刻，
00:20
when the hurt and wounds of racism
2
8600
4200
那時，種族歧視所帶來的傷痛
令我生不如死、遲鈍麻木。
00:25
were both deadly and paralyzing for me.
3
13920
4400
00:32
And I think what I've learned
4
20240
1960
我想我從中學到的，
能成為我們痊癒的來源之一。
00:35
can be a source of healing for all of us.
5
23160
4240
00:41
When I was 17 years old,
6
29320
4840
我十七歲的時候
00:47
I was a college student
at Tuskegee University,
at Tuskegee University,
7
35920
4800
是塔斯基吉大學的學生，
00:54
and I was a worker
in the Southern freedom movement,
in the Southern freedom movement,
8
42520
4896
我是南方解放運動的參與者，
00:59
which we call the Civil Rights Movement.
9
47440
2640
現在我們稱之非裔美國人民權運動。
01:05
During this time,
10
53720
1640
在那個時候，
01:08
I met another young 26-year-old,
11
56840
5136
我遇見了另一位二十六歲的年輕人，
01:14
white seminary and college student
12
62000
3016
他是就讀神學院的白人大學生——
01:17
named Jonathan Daniels,
from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
13
65040
4360
強納森．丹尼爾斯，
他來自麻塞諸色州的劍橋。
他來自麻塞諸色州的劍橋。
01:22
He and I
14
70160
1240
他和我
01:24
were both part of a generation
of idealistic young people,
of idealistic young people,
15
72600
5520
都是那一代充滿理想的年輕人，
01:31
whose life has been ignited
16
79640
3456
我們的生命被自由之火點燃，
01:35
by the freedom fire
17
83120
2456
01:37
that ordinary black people
were spreading around the nation
were spreading around the nation
18
85600
4976
那火苗透過尋常的黑人民眾
燎過整個國家，遍及整個南方。
燎過整個國家，遍及整個南方。
01:42
and throughout the South.
19
90600
1880
01:46
We had come to Lowndes County
20
94400
2560
我們為一場運動來到了朗茲郡，
01:50
to work in the movement.
21
98120
2120
01:53
And it was a nonviolent movement
22
101160
3296
那是一場非暴力的運動，
01:56
to redeem the souls of America.
23
104480
2720
目的是為了贖回美國的靈魂。
02:00
We believe that everyone,
24
108800
3616
我們相信每個人不論膚色，
02:04
both black and white,
25
112440
2536
02:07
people in the South,
26
115000
1840
南方的人民
02:09
could find a redemptive pathway
27
117920
2440
可以找到一條和解的道路，
掙脫被種族歧視
02:13
out of the stranglehold of racism
28
121400
3296
02:16
that had gripped them
for more than 400 years.
for more than 400 years.
29
124720
3680
撕裂了四百多年的束縛。
02:24
And on a hot, summer day in August,
30
132920
3800
在一個八月的夏日夜晚，
02:29
Jonathan and I joined a demonstration
31
137720
4016
強納森跟我參加了一場
當地年輕黑人的示威，
當地年輕黑人的示威，
02:33
of local young black people,
32
141760
2736
02:36
who were protesting the exploitation
33
144520
3560
他們抗議那些有錢的地主
02:40
[of] black sharecroppers
34
148960
4896
對黑人佃農剝削，
02:45
by rich land holders
who cheated them out of their money.
who cheated them out of their money.
35
153880
5160
地主騙了他們的錢。
02:54
We decided to demonstrate alongside them.
36
162920
4200
我們決定與他們一同示威，
02:59
And on the morning that we showed up
for the demonstration,
for the demonstration,
37
167920
3320
在那個我們一同示威的早上，
03:04
we were met with a mob
of howling white men
of howling white men
38
172560
4736
我們遇到了一群叫囂的白人，
03:09
with baseball bats, shotguns
39
177320
4120
拿著球棒、獵槍，
03:15
and any weapon that you could imagine.
40
183320
2600
和任何你想像得到的武器。
03:18
And they were threatening to kill us.
41
186760
2560
他們威脅要殺掉我們，
03:22
And the sheriff,
seeing the danger that we faced,
seeing the danger that we faced,
42
190200
5400
警長看到我們遭受威脅，
03:28
arrested us and put us on a garbage truck
43
196560
5216
逮捕了我們，讓我們上了垃圾車，
03:33
and took us to the local jail,
44
201800
2000
帶我們到了當地的監獄，
03:37
where we were put in cells
45
205520
3936
我們被關在你所能想像
最不人道的環境；
最不人道的環境；
03:41
with the most inhumane
conditions you can imagine.
conditions you can imagine.
46
209480
4120
03:46
And we were threatened by the jailers
47
214760
3960
我們被獄卒威脅
03:51
with drinking water
that came from toilets.
that came from toilets.
48
219880
4240
只能喝來自馬桶的水。
03:59
We were finally released on the sixth day,
49
227840
3240
我們終於在第六天被釋放了，
沒有任何的告知、沒有任何的預警，
04:05
without any knowledge,
without any forewarning.
without any forewarning.
50
233800
3296
04:09
Just out of the clear blue sky,
51
237120
2776
就這樣突然地，
04:11
we were made to leave.
52
239920
1440
我們被強制釋放了。
04:14
And we knew that this
was a dangerous sign,
was a dangerous sign,
53
242840
3696
我們知道這是個危險的訊號，
04:18
because Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney
had also been forced to leave jail
had also been forced to leave jail
54
246560
6376
因為古德曼、史維納、查尼
也曾被強制離開監獄，
也曾被強制離開監獄，
04:24
and were murdered because no one knew
what had happened to them.
what had happened to them.
55
252960
3520
並被人謀殺了，因為沒有人
知道他們發生了什麼事。
知道他們發生了什麼事。
04:29
And so, despite our fervent resistance,
56
257640
5120
儘管我們的堅決抵抗，
04:35
the sheriff made us leave the jail,
57
263520
2856
警長要求我們離開監獄，
04:38
and of course, nobody was waiting for us.
58
266400
2760
當然沒有人來接我們出獄。
04:44
It was hot,
59
272040
1680
那是個典型南方的大熱天，
04:48
one of those Southern days
60
276080
2736
04:50
where you could
literally feel the pavement --
literally feel the pavement --
61
278840
2720
你幾乎可以感受到
由人行道逸散出的蒸氣。
04:54
the vapor seeping out of the pavement.
62
282960
4040
05:00
And the group of about 14 of us
63
288720
3480
我們一群十四個人，
05:05
selected Jonathan Daniels,
64
293840
2600
選出了：強納森．丹尼爾斯、
05:09
Father Morrisroe, who had recently
come to the county,
come to the county,
65
297440
4096
初來乍到這個郡的神父默瑞思若、
05:13
Joyce Bailey, a local 17-year-old girl
66
301560
5856
一個當地的十七歲女生喬伊絲．貝禮，
05:19
and I to go and get the drinks.
67
307440
2080
和我去買一點喝的。
05:23
When we got to the door,
68
311440
1800
當我們來到店門口，
05:26
a white man was standing
in the doorway with a shotgun,
in the doorway with a shotgun,
69
314680
4016
一個帶著獵槍的白人男性站在門口，
05:30
and he said, "Bitch,
I'll blow your brains out!"
I'll blow your brains out!"
70
318720
4480
他說：「婊子，我要轟爆妳的腦袋！」
05:36
And before I could even react,
71
324680
3056
在我來得及反應之前，
05:39
before I could even process
what was going on,
what was going on,
72
327760
3856
05:43
Jonathan intentionally pulled my blouse,
73
331640
3120
強納森刻意拉我的上衣，
05:48
and I fell back, thinking that I was dead.
74
336280
3440
我往後跌，想著我死定了，
05:53
And in that instant, when I looked up,
75
341440
3176
在那瞬間我抬頭看，
05:56
Jonathan Daniels
was standing in the line of fire,
was standing in the line of fire,
76
344640
3800
強納森挺身站在鎗火前面，
06:01
and he took the blast,
77
349440
2040
他中了彈，
06:04
and he saved my life.
78
352840
1880
他救了我。
06:15
I was so traumatized
79
363120
3600
這場意外讓我痛苦萬分、
06:19
and paralyzed by that event,
80
367800
4000
遲鈍麻木，
06:24
where Tom Coleman deliberately,
81
372720
4120
湯姆．柯曼帶著刻意的惡意，
06:30
with malicious intent,
82
378160
2080
06:33
killed my beloved friend and colleague,
83
381280
4136
殺了我深愛的朋友和隊友——
06:37
Jonathan Myrick Daniels.
84
385440
2920
強納森．麥瑞克．丹尼爾斯。
06:47
On that day,
85
395040
1560
那一天，
06:50
which was one of the most
important days in my life,
important days in my life,
86
398400
3280
那是我生命中非常重要的一天，
06:54
I saw both love and hate
87
402800
2400
我同時看見了愛與恨，
06:58
coming from two very different white men
88
406680
4256
來自兩位迥異的白人，
07:02
that represented the best
and the worst of white America.
and the worst of white America.
89
410960
6040
象徵著美國白人最好跟最壞的一面。
07:10
So deep was my hurt
90
418800
1776
我的傷痛是如此深，
07:12
at seeing Tom Coleman
murder Jonathan before my eyes,
murder Jonathan before my eyes,
91
420600
4736
看著湯姆．柯曼
在我眼前殺害強納森，
在我眼前殺害強納森，
07:17
that I became a silent person,
92
425360
2896
我變得沉默寡言，
07:20
and I did not speak
93
428280
1760
無法言語達六個月。
07:23
for six months.
94
431760
1440
07:28
I finally learned to touch that hurt in me
95
436360
4696
直到我年紀稍長一些，
我才終於有勇氣觸碰我的傷口，
我才終於有勇氣觸碰我的傷口，
07:33
as I became older
96
441080
2496
07:35
and began to talk about
the Southern freedom movement,
the Southern freedom movement,
97
443600
4376
能開口談論南方解放運動，
07:40
and began to connect my stories
98
448000
2816
然後試著將我的故事
07:42
with the stories of my other colleagues
and freedom fighters,
and freedom fighters,
99
450840
5736
和其他隊友、自由鬥士的故事連結，
07:48
who, like me, had faced
deadly trauma of racism,
deadly trauma of racism,
100
456600
5616
他們像我一樣曾經面對
種族歧視的致命創傷，
種族歧視的致命創傷，
07:54
and who had lost friends along the way,
101
462240
3256
他們在這一路上也曾失去朋友，
07:57
and who themselves
have been beaten and thrown in jail.
have been beaten and thrown in jail.
102
465520
3800
他們自己也曾被傷害或關進監獄。
08:07
It is 50 years later.
103
475200
2400
現在已經過了五十年。
還是有許多人被打傷、被送進監獄，
08:13
Many people were beaten
and thrown in jail.
and thrown in jail.
104
481280
4280
08:18
Others were murdered
like Jonathan Daniels.
like Jonathan Daniels.
105
486880
3000
有些人像強納森一樣被殺害。
08:22
And yet, we are still, as a nation,
106
490720
5096
但，我們做為一個國家
08:27
mired down
107
495840
1960
仍深陷在種族歧視的泥沼之中。
08:30
in the quicksand of racism.
108
498760
2160
08:38
And everywhere I go around the nation,
109
506520
3616
不論我走到全國何地，
08:42
I see and hear the hurt.
110
510160
3879
我看到、聽到這些傷痛，
08:47
And I ask people everywhere,
111
515000
2655
我問大家：
08:49
"Tell me, where does it hurt?"
112
517679
2521
「告訴我，是哪裡在隱隱作痛？」
08:53
Do you see and feel the hurt
113
521600
3496
你所看到、感受的傷痛
是否和我一樣？
是否和我一樣？
08:57
that I see and feel?
114
525120
1720
09:01
I feel and see the hurt
in black and brown people
in black and brown people
115
529240
5960
我感受跟看到黑人跟棕色人種的傷痛，
09:07
who every day feel
the vicious volley of racism
the vicious volley of racism
116
535880
6600
每一天他們都因種族歧視
而不斷被攻擊，
而不斷被攻擊，
09:16
and every day have their
civil and human rights stripped away.
civil and human rights stripped away.
117
544320
4960
每一天他們被剝奪公民權和人權。
09:22
And the people who do this
use stereotypes and myths
use stereotypes and myths
118
550040
5176
製造這些傷害的人用刻板印象和迷思
合理化他們的所作所為。
09:27
to justify doing it.
119
555240
2120
我所到之處，
09:33
Everywhere I go,
120
561920
1520
09:36
I see and hear women
121
564880
3800
我看見並聽見女人
09:43
who speak out against --
122
571000
3736
出面指控，
09:46
who speak out against
men who invade our bodies.
men who invade our bodies.
123
574760
4280
指控那些侵犯她們身體的男人。
09:52
These same men who then turn around --
124
580720
3776
而同一群男人轉身──
09:56
the same men who promote racism
125
584520
2496
那些支持種族歧視的男人
09:59
and then turn around and steal our labor
and pay us unequal wages.
and pay us unequal wages.
126
587040
5800
轉身偷走我們勞力成果，
支付我們不平等的工資；
支付我們不平等的工資；
10:07
I hear and feel the hurt of white men
127
595200
4176
我聽見跟感覺那些白種男人的傷痛，
10:11
at the betrayal by
the same powerful white men
the same powerful white men
128
599400
4080
同樣被有權力的白種男人給背叛，
10:16
who tell them that their skin color
129
604760
2920
他們被告知：他們的膚色
10:20
is their ticket to a good life and power,
130
608760
3416
是獲得更好生活與權力的入場券；
10:24
only to discover,
131
612200
2816
到頭來卻發現，
10:27
as the circle of whiteness narrows,
132
615040
3456
當白人權力核心的圈子縮小，
10:30
that their tickets have expired
133
618520
3176
他們的門票失效了，
10:33
and no longer carry first-class status.
134
621720
3720
再也無法享有頭等身分。
10:39
Now that we've touched the hurt,
135
627480
2160
現在我們觸碰了傷口，
10:42
we must ask ourselves,
136
630640
2776
我們必須自問：
10:45
"Where does it hurt
137
633440
1640
「是哪裡在隱隱作痛？
10:48
and what is the source of the hurt?"
138
636480
2600
而傷口的源頭又是什麼？」
10:55
I propose that we must look
139
643440
5176
我主張：我們必須深入檢視
11:00
deeply into the culture of whiteness.
140
648640
3360
白人優越主義的文化。
11:04
That is a river that drowns out
all of our identities
all of our identities
141
652960
4776
這條河淹沒了我們的自我認同，
11:09
and drowns us in false uniformity
to protect the status quo.
to protect the status quo.
142
657760
5520
用虛假的平等淹沒了我們，
以維持現狀。
以維持現狀。
11:16
Notice, everybody,
I said culture of whiteness,
I said culture of whiteness,
143
664760
5136
請注意，我說的是白人優越文化
11:21
and not white people.
144
669920
2056
而不是白人。
11:24
Because in my estimation,
145
672000
2976
因為依我所見，
11:27
the problem is not white people.
146
675000
2120
問題並不是白人，
11:30
Instead, it is the culture of whiteness.
147
678120
3440
而是白人優越主義文化。
11:34
And by culture of whiteness,
148
682320
1376
所謂的白人優越主義文化，
11:35
I mean a systemic and organized
set of beliefs,
set of beliefs,
149
683720
5976
我指的是一種系統性、
組織性的信仰、
組織性的信仰、
11:41
values, canonized knowledge
and even religion,
and even religion,
150
689720
6480
價值觀、權威化的知識，
甚至是宗教，
11:49
to maintain a hierarchical,
over-and-against power structure
over-and-against power structure
151
697840
5536
去維持一種階級式的權力結構，
11:55
based on skin color,
against people of color.
against people of color.
152
703400
3600
基於膚色去對抗其他膚色的人種。
12:03
It is a culture
153
711640
3800
這種文化，
12:08
where white people are seen
as necessary and friendly insiders,
as necessary and friendly insiders,
154
716240
6280
將白人視為不可或缺
且友善的圈內人，
且友善的圈內人，
12:15
while people of color,
especially black people,
especially black people,
155
723680
3000
有色人種，尤其是黑人
12:19
are seen as dangerous
156
727720
2640
則被視為危險的、具威脅性的圈外人，
12:23
and threatening outsiders,
157
731760
2816
12:26
who pose a clear and present danger
158
734600
3256
帶來了明確而立即的危險性，
12:29
to the safety and the efficacy
159
737880
3200
威脅了白人優越文化的安全與效力。
12:35
of the culture of whiteness.
160
743000
2920
12:44
Listen to me and see if you can imagine
161
752880
4296
請聽我說並試著想像：
12:49
the culture of whiteness
as a dehumanizing process
as a dehumanizing process
162
757200
5336
白人優越主義文化是一種
剝奪人性的過程，
剝奪人性的過程，
12:54
that melts away
163
762560
1456
它損害了我們多元
且相互緊密連結的認同，
且相互緊密連結的認同，
12:56
all of our multiple
and interlocking identities,
and interlocking identities,
164
764040
5936
13:02
such as race, class,
gender and sexualities,
gender and sexualities,
165
770000
5816
例如：種族、階級、
性別、性取向等等，
性別、性取向等等，
13:07
so that ...
166
775840
1200
如此一來，
便能為了鞏固權力而維持一致性。
13:10
so that unity is maintained for power.
167
778880
4760
13:18
I believe, because I know
168
786640
2400
我相信，因為我知道：
13:22
and believe that the culture of whiteness
169
790600
4896
這種白人優越主義文化
是由社會所架構而成的。
13:27
is a social construct.
170
795520
2040
13:32
Each of us, from birth to death,
171
800720
3776
我們每個人從生到死
都在文化中被社會化。
都在文化中被社會化。
13:36
are socialized in this culture.
172
804520
3296
13:39
And it marks people of color also.
173
807840
3016
是文化標註了人的膚色。
13:42
And it makes people of color,
like white people,
like white people,
174
810880
4536
文化讓人們依膚色，像是白人，
13:47
vote against our interests.
175
815440
3240
反對其他人的權益。
13:57
Some of you might ask --
176
825080
1456
有些人可能會問，
13:58
and my students always tell me
I give hard assignments --
I give hard assignments --
177
826560
4256
──我的學生總說我老是出難題──
14:02
some of you might ask, and rightfully so,
178
830840
2840
你們可能會問，也可以理直氣壯地問：
14:07
"How do we fix this?
179
835640
2736
「我們可以怎麼樣改變呢？
14:10
It seems so all-powerful
and overwhelming."
and overwhelming."
180
838400
3240
這一切似乎無法動搖，
令人無法招架。」
令人無法招架。」
14:16
I believe that we must fix it,
181
844920
3176
我相信：我們必須改變現狀，
14:20
because we cannot humanize our future
182
848120
3456
因為我們不能讓未來更人性化，
14:23
if we continue to be complicit
183
851600
3736
如果我們繼續當
白人優越主義文化的共犯。
白人優越主義文化的共犯。
14:27
with the culture of whiteness.
184
855360
2360
14:30
Each of us must connect
with our authentic selves,
with our authentic selves,
185
858680
5416
我們每個人都必須去連結
真正的自我跟道德上的真我，
真正的自我跟道德上的真我，
14:36
with our authentic ethnic selves.
186
864120
3256
14:39
And we must connect
with the other aspects of our identities.
with the other aspects of our identities.
187
867400
4120
我們必須連結自我認同中其他的面向。
14:44
And we must move out of the constructs
188
872960
3416
我們必須跨越
14:48
of whiteness, brownness and blackness
189
876400
4616
白、棕、黑色人種的架構，
14:53
to become who we are at our fullest.
190
881040
4120
成為最完整的自我。
15:02
How do we do this?
191
890080
3376
我們如何辦到呢？
15:05
I believe that we do this
through our collective narratives.
through our collective narratives.
192
893480
4496
我相信我們可以透過共同敘事來達到。
15:10
And our collective narratives
must contain our individual stories,
must contain our individual stories,
193
898000
5160
而我們的共同敘事
必須包含我們個人的故事、
必須包含我們個人的故事、
15:16
the arts,
194
904240
2216
藝術、
15:18
spiritual reflections,
195
906480
2200
精神上的反思、
15:22
literature,
196
910480
1520
文學，
15:26
and yes, even drumming.
197
914040
2336
甚至是打鼓。
15:28
(Laughter)
198
916400
1600
（笑聲）
15:32
It must be a collective telling,
199
920080
3296
這一定要是一種共同敘事，
15:35
because individual stories
just create a paradigm
just create a paradigm
200
923400
4416
因為個別的故事會創造出一種典範，
15:39
where we are pitting one story
against another story.
against another story.
201
927840
3920
我們會將每個故事排排站，羅列參照。
15:49
These different models
that I have talked about tonight
that I have talked about tonight
202
937120
3800
我今天晚上所提到的幾種不同方法
15:54
I think are essential
to providing us a pathway
to providing us a pathway
203
942520
5096
是必要元素，
以讓我們往前走出種族歧視的泥淖。
15:59
out of the quagmire of racism.
204
947640
4056
16:03
And I want to talk about
another very important model.
another very important model.
205
951720
4936
我還要再講另一個非常重要的方法，
16:08
And that is redemption.
206
956680
2640
就是和解（原文：救贖）。
16:12
I believe that movements
for racial justice
for racial justice
207
960680
4976
我相信推動種族平等的進步，
16:17
must be redemptive rather than punitive.
208
965680
4856
需要透過雙方面的和解，
而非單方面的懲罰。
而非單方面的懲罰。
16:22
And yes, I believe
209
970560
2856
我相信：我們必須提供
每個人和解的機會。
每個人和解的機會。
16:25
that we must provide the possibility
of redemption for everyone.
of redemption for everyone.
210
973440
4200
16:30
And we must be willing,
211
978720
2216
而我們也必須願意，
16:32
despite some of the vitriolic language
212
980960
3416
儘管一些惡毒的言語
16:36
that might come from
those very people who oppress us,
those very people who oppress us,
213
984400
5016
正來自施暴者，
16:41
I think that we must listen to them
214
989440
4536
我想我們必須聆聽
並試著去了解他們的傷口。
並試著去了解他們的傷口。
16:46
and try to figure out where do they hurt.
215
994000
2920
16:50
We must do this, I believe,
216
998120
1896
我們必須這麼做，我相信：
16:52
because our redemption
is tied into their redemption,
is tied into their redemption,
217
1000040
5896
因為我們彼此的和解是緊緊相連的，
16:57
And we will not be free
218
1005960
2496
我們無法真正的自由，
17:00
until we've all been redeemed
from unredemptive anger.
from unredemptive anger.
219
1008480
4640
直到我們被未和解之怨氣而解放。
17:14
The challenge is not easy.
220
1022200
2200
這是個艱難的挑戰。
17:17
And in a technological society,
it grows even more complicated,
it grows even more complicated,
221
1025319
5457
在這個科技發達的社會，
科技讓事情變得更複雜。
科技讓事情變得更複雜。
17:22
because often we use technologies
222
1030800
2696
我們常常使用科技
去煽動歧視的語言，
去煽動歧視的語言，
17:25
to perpetuate the very values of racism
that we indulge in every day.
that we indulge in every day.
223
1033520
5720
每日沉浸其中。
17:33
We use technology to bully,
224
1041280
2559
我們利用科技去霸凌、
煽動仇恨的語言、
17:37
to perpetuate hate speech
225
1045119
2240
17:40
and to degrade each other's humanities.
226
1048720
3440
詆毀他人的人性。
17:45
And so I believe that
if we're going to humanize the future,
if we're going to humanize the future,
227
1053120
4536
因此我相信如果我們要
讓未來變得更人性化，
讓未來變得更人性化，
17:49
we must design ways to use technology
228
1057680
3256
我們必須找出使用科技的方法，
17:52
not to degrade us, but to elevate us
229
1060960
3456
不再貶低彼此而是互相提升，
17:56
so that we can live
into the fullest of our capacities.
into the fullest of our capacities.
230
1064440
4376
如此一來我們便可以實現
我們共同的最大潛力。
我們共同的最大潛力。
18:00
And I believe that technology
231
1068840
2736
我相信：科技可以
提供我們更好的前景，
提供我們更好的前景，
18:03
must provide us larger vistas
232
1071600
4256
18:07
so that we might engage with each other
233
1075880
2656
所以我們可以與彼此有更深的互動、
18:10
and move beyond the segregated spaces
that we live in, every day of our lives.
that we live in, every day of our lives.
234
1078560
5200
跨越那些生活中被分裂的孤島。
18:17
I believe
235
1085880
1480
我相信：
18:21
that we can achieve this
if we set our minds
if we set our minds
236
1089240
4960
我們可以達到目的，
只要我們下定決心、
只要我們下定決心、
18:27
and hopes on the prize.
237
1095400
2880
目標專注。
18:32
The question before us tonight
238
1100880
2240
今晚我們要面對非常嚴肅的問題，
18:37
is very serious.
239
1105360
1880
18:40
It is: "Do you want to be healed?
240
1108840
3400
就是：「你是否想要被治癒呢？」
18:45
Do you want to be healed?"
241
1113720
2080
「你是否想要被治癒呢？」
18:49
Do you want to become whole
and live into all of your identities?
and live into all of your identities?
242
1117520
5096
你是否想要變得完整
並活出你所有的身分認同呢？
並活出你所有的身分認同呢？
18:54
Or do you want to continue
to cannibalize your multiple identities
to cannibalize your multiple identities
243
1122640
6576
或是你想要繼續拼湊
你的多元身分認同、
你的多元身分認同、
使用權威、凌駕於
其他身分認同之上呢？
其他身分認同之上呢？
19:01
and privilege one identity over the other?
244
1129240
2480
19:07
Do you want to join a long line
245
1135240
3560
你是否想要加入
這個跨越世代的長陣線，
這個跨越世代的長陣線，
19:12
of generations of people
246
1140240
2480
19:15
who believed in the promise of America
247
1143880
3576
這相信著美國的承諾
並擁有信念去深化民主的陣線？
並擁有信念去深化民主的陣線？
19:19
and had the faith to upbuild democracy?
248
1147480
4440
19:28
Do you want to live
into the fullest of your potential?
into the fullest of your potential?
249
1156760
4656
你是否想要活出你全部的潛力？
19:33
I certainly do.
250
1161440
1576
我想要。
19:35
And I believe you do, too.
251
1163040
1720
我相信你也是。
19:39
Let me just say, quite seriously,
252
1167920
4136
讓我認真嚴肅地說，
19:44
I believe in you.
253
1172080
1640
我相信你們。
19:47
And despite everything,
254
1175080
1680
不論過去種種，
19:49
I still believe in America.
255
1177960
3600
我仍然相信美國。
19:55
I hope that this offering
that I've given to you tonight,
that I've given to you tonight,
256
1183760
3536
我希望今晚所跟你們分享的，
19:59
that I've shared with you tonight,
257
1187320
2536
20:01
will provide redemptive pathways
258
1189880
3776
將提供和解的道路。
20:05
so that you might claim
the fullest of your identity
the fullest of your identity
259
1193680
4576
讓你們重拾最完整的身分認同
20:10
and become a major participant
260
1198280
2816
並成為人性化運動的主要參與者，
20:13
in humanizing not only
the future for yourselves,
the future for yourselves,
261
1201120
5416
不只為了你自己的未來，
20:18
but also for our democracy.
262
1206560
2280
也為了我們的民主。
20:21
Thank you.
263
1209520
1256
謝謝大家。
20:22
(Applause)
264
1210800
4200
（掌聲）
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ruby Sales - Activist, scholar, educatorRuby Sales has preached around the country on race, class, gender and reconciliation.
Why you should listen
Ruby Sales is the founder and director of the Spirit House Project. She joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s as a teenager at Tuskegee University and went to work as a student freedom fighter in Lowndes County, Alabama. She is one of 50 African Americans to be spotlighted in the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.
A deeply committed social activist, scholar, administrator, manager, public theologian and educator in the areas of civil, gender and other human rights, Sales has preached around the country on race, class, gender and reconciliation. She has done groundbreaking work on community and nonviolence formation, and also serves as a national convener of the Every Church A Peace Church Movement. Throughout her career, Sales has mentored young people and provided support and venues for an intergenerational community of developing and seasoned social justice performing and creative artists. She has a deep commitment to providing the education, practical experiences, and frame of references to contest racism and add their voices to the public conversations on the many streams of oppression that emerge from them.
Ruby Sales | Speaker | TED.com