1918 Statement to the Court -- Eugene Victor Debs
delivered 14 [or 18] September 1918, Federal Court of Cleveland, Ohio
1918 年 9 月 14 [或 18] 交付，俄亥俄州克利夫兰联邦法院
Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth.
法官大人，多年前我就认清了我与众生的亲缘关系，我下定决心，我不比地球上最卑鄙的人好到一丁点。
I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
我当时说过，现在也说过，只要有下层阶级，我就身处其中；只要有犯罪分子，我就属于其中；只要监狱里有灵魂，我就没有自由。
I listened to all that was said in this court in support and justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains unchanged.
我听取了法庭上所有支持和证明起诉合理性的言论，但我的想法没有改变。
I look upon the Espionage Law as a despotic enactment in flagrant conflict with democratic principles and with the spirit of free institutions....
我认为《间谍法》是一项与民主原则和自由制度精神公然冲突的专制法令……
Your Honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in a fundamental change -- but if possible by peaceable and orderly means....
法官大人，我在法庭上曾说过，我反对我们所生活的社会制度；我相信根本性的改变——但如果可能的话，通过和平有序的方式......
Standing here this morning, I recall my boyhood.
今天早上站在这里，我回忆起我的童年。
At fourteen I went to work in a railroad shop; at sixteen I was firing a freight engine on a railroad.
十四岁时，我在一家铁路商店工作。十六岁时，我在铁路上驾驶货运引擎。
I remember all the hardships and privations of that earlier day, and from that time until now my heart has been with the working class.
我记得那天的所有艰辛和匮乏，从那时起直到现在我的心一直与工人阶级在一起。
I could have been in Congress long ago.
我很久以前就可以进入国会了。
I have preferred to go to prison....
我宁愿去监狱......
I am thinking this morning of the men in the mills and the factories; of the men in the mines and on the railroads.
今天早上我想起了磨坊和工厂里的人们；矿山和铁路上的人们。
I am thinking of the women who for a paltry wage are compelled to work out their barren lives; of the little children who in this system are robbed of their childhood and in their tender years are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the monster machines while they themselves are being starved and stunted, body and soul.
我想到的是那些为了微薄的工资而被迫过着贫瘠生活的妇女；在这个系统中，孩子们的童年被剥夺了，他们的幼年被财神无情地抓住，被迫进入工业地牢，在那里喂养怪物机器，而他们自己却在饥饿和发育不良中，身体和灵魂。
I see them dwarfed and diseased and their little lives broken and blasted because in this high noon of Christian civilization money is still so much more important than the flesh and blood of childhood.
我看到他们变得侏儒、患病，他们的小生命支离破碎，因为在基督教文明的正午，金钱仍然比童年的血肉重要得多。
In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men.
事实上，今天黄金就是神，无情地统治着人类的事务。
In this country -- the most favored beneath the bending skies -- we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child -- and if there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and lulls these hapless victims to dreamless sleep, it is not the fault of the Almighty: it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all humanity....
在这个天空下最受青睐的国家，我们拥有大片最肥沃、最肥沃的土地，取之不尽、用之不竭的物质资源，地球上最奇妙的生产机器，以及数以百万计热心的工人，准备将自己的劳动投入到机器中，为每个男人、女人和儿童提供丰富的产品——如果我们还有大量的人民遭受贫困，他们的生活从青年到老年都在不断地挣扎，直到最后死亡来拯救他们。并使这些不幸的受害者陷入无梦的睡眠，这不是全能者的错：它不能归咎于自然，而完全是由于我们生活在其中的已经过时的社会制度应该被废除，不仅是为了劳动群众的利益，而且是为了全人类的更高利益……
I believe, Your Honor, in common with all Socialists, that this nation ought to own and control its own industries.
法官大人，我与所有社会主义者一样，相信这个国家应该拥有并控制自己的工业。
I believe, as all Socialists do, that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned -- that industry, the basis of our social life, instead of being the private property of a few and operated for their enrichment, ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered in the interest of all....
我相信，正如所有社会主义者所做的那样，所有共同需要和使用的东西都应该是共同拥有的——作为我们社会生活基础的工业，不应成为少数人的私有财产并为他们致富而经营，而应该成为所有人的共同财产，为了所有人的利益而民主管理……
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
我反对这样一种社会秩序，在这种秩序中，一个完全不做任何有用事情的人有可能积累数亿美元的财富，而数百万终其一生工作的男女只能勉强维持悲惨的生活。
This order of things cannot always endure.
这种秩序不可能永远持续下去。
I have registered my protest against it.
我已对此表示抗议。
I recognize the feebleness of my effort, but, fortunately, I am not alone.
我认识到自己的努力是微不足道的，但幸运的是，我并不孤单。
There are multiplied thousands of others who, like myself, have come to realize that before we may truly enjoy the blessings of civilized life, we must reorganize society upon a mutual and cooperative basis; and to this end we have organized a great economic and political movement that spreads over the face of all the earth.
成千上万的人和我一样，已经认识到，在我们真正享受文明生活的福祉之前，我们必须在相互合作的基础上重组社会；为此，我们组织了一场席卷全球的伟大经济和政治运动。
There are today upwards of sixty millions of Socialists, loyal, devoted adherents to this cause, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color, or sex.
今天，有超过六千万的社会主义者，无论国籍、种族、信仰、肤色或性别，都是这一事业的忠实拥护者。
They are all making common cause.
他们都在做共同的事业。
They are spreading with tireless energy the propaganda of the new social order.
他们孜孜不倦地宣传新的社会秩序。
They are waiting, watching, and working hopefully through all the hours of the day and the night.
他们日以继夜地等待、观察和满怀希望地工作。
They are still in a minority.
他们仍然属于少数。
But they have learned how to be patient and to bide their time.
但他们已经学会了如何保持耐心并等待时机。
They feel -- they know, indeed -- that the time is coming, in spite of all opposition, all persecution, when this emancipating gospel will spread among all the peoples, and when this minority will become the triumphant majority and, sweeping into power, inaugurate the greatest social and economic change in history.
他们感到——事实上，他们知道——尽管有各种反对和迫害，这一时刻即将到来，届时这种解放的福音将在所有人民中传播，届时少数人将成为胜利的多数，并横扫权力，开启历史上最伟大的社会和经济变革。
In that day we shall have the universal commonwealth -- the harmonious cooperation of every nation with every other nation on earth....
到那一天，我们将拥有普遍的联邦——地球上每个国家与其他国家的和谐合作……
Your Honor, I ask no mercy and I plead for no immunity.
法官大人，我不要求任何怜悯，也不请求豁免。
I realize that finally the right must prevail.
我意识到最终权利必须获胜。
I never so clearly comprehended as now the great struggle between the powers of greed and exploitation on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of industrial freedom and social justice.
我从来没有像现在这样清楚地理解一方面是贪婪和剥削的力量，另一方面是新兴的工业自由和社会正义的力量之间的伟大斗争。
I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity.
我可以看到人类更美好日子的曙光。
The people are awakening.
人们正在觉醒。
In due time they will and must come to their own.
在适当的时候，他们将会而且必须自行解决。
When the mariner, sailing over tropic seas, looks for relief from his weary watch, he turns his eyes toward the southern cross, burning luridly above the tempest-vexed ocean.
当航海者在热带海洋上航行，从疲惫的手表中寻找解脱时，他将目光转向南十字星，它在暴风雨般的海洋上空可怕地燃烧。
As the midnight approaches, the southern cross begins to bend, the whirling worlds change their places, and with starry fingerpoints the Almighty marks the passage of time upon the dial of the universe, and though no bell may beat the glad tidings, the lookout knows that the midnight is passing and that relief and rest are close at hand.
随着午夜的临近，南十字星开始弯曲，旋转的世界改变了位置，万能的上帝用繁星点点的手指在宇宙的表盘上标记了时间的流逝，尽管没有任何钟声可以击败这个好消息，但瞭望者知道午夜即将过去，解脱和休息即将到来。
Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.
让世界各地的人们充满希望，因为十字架已经弯曲，午夜已经过去，喜乐随着早晨而来。
I am now prepared to receive your sentence.
我现在已经准备好接受你的判决了。
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