They said the new state governments of the South would not treat blacks as free and equal citizens. As proof, they pointed to new laws the southern legislatures passed.

他们说，南方新成立州把黑人视为自由平等公民。作为证据，他们指出南方立法机关通过新法律。

And so what's more untraditional than treating women as relative equals?

还有什么比将女性视为相对平等更符合传统呢？

One solution is to halt the intense scrutiny that views the genders as unequal.

一种解决方案是停止将性别视为平等严格审查。

Bachelor degrees, whether indicating high scholarship or a minimum of work, are treated by the public as free and equal; and what is worse they are far too much so treated by the colleges and universities themselves.

学士学位，无论是高奖学金还是最低限度工作，都被公众视为免费和平等；更糟糕是，他们受到学院和大学本身过度对待。

So Thomas Piketty cites the 1950s as the supposed golden age of economic equality, where high income taxes pushed the rich down, held them in place, and supposedly society ordered itself in the way that he wanted.

因此， 托马斯·皮凯蒂将20世纪50年代视为经济平等所谓黄金代，那高额所得税压低了富人阶层，使他们保持在一定水平， 并据称按照他所期望方式自行组织起来。

Her work also helped the feminist movement, or the effort by people to change society so that women were seen differently, so that they had equal rights or seen in an equal way as men were.

她工作也帮助了女权运动，即人们为了改变， 使女性被看待方式同而做出努力， 让她们享有与男性同等权利或被视为与男性平等。

But we can and we must also recognize when we're advantaged at the expense of someone else, and recognize fairness as the balance between these two inequalities, because our society literally depends upon it.

但我们也要认识到， 当我们以他人损失为代价获得优势， 应该把公平视为这两种平等之间平衡，因为我们实际上就依赖于此。

But by the same token, I think the one thing I do get from religion is that every human has infinite worth, because we are, in a religious capacity, considered to be equal to God.

同样地，我认为我从宗教中得到一个观点是， 每个人都具有无限价值， 因为在宗教意义上， 我们被视为与神平等。换句话说，我们虽非神明，却能思考神所作所为。

So maybe if we look at America as the land of the free and of equality as a founding myth, the myth itself covers up so many of the social practices of conspicuous consumption.

因此， 如果我们把美国视为自由与平等国度， 并将其作为立国神话来看待，那么这一神话本身就掩盖了众多奢华消费实践。

The law looks only to the difference created by the injury, treating the parties themselves as equal, and only asking whether the one has done and the other suffered injury or damage.

法律仅关注伤害所造成影响，将当事人视为平等，只探究一方是否造成了伤害， 而另一方是否承受了损害。

As the mathematician and philosopher d'Alembert remarked, the man of letters should deal only with those whom he can treat and regard in all security as his equals and his friends.

正如数学家兼哲学家达朗贝尔所言，文人墨客只应与那些他能在完全安心情况下视为平等且朋友人交往。

Karl Marx saw religion as an agent of social stratification, which served those in power by legitimizing the status quo and framing existing inequality as part of a divine plan.

卡尔马克思将宗教视为分层代理人，它通过使现状合法化并将现有平等视为神圣计划一部分来为当权者服务。

And it seems that what the Russians really want is to be seen as an equal that's perhaps willing to be even part of a security architecture in future.

看来，俄罗斯真正渴望是被视为一个平等伙伴，甚至可能愿意在未来成为安全架构一部分。

So putting aside that gender equality is a moral imperative, companies should view achieving gender equality as a business imperative if they want to survive in the long-term.

因此， 抛开性别平等是道德义务谈，企业若想在长远中生存， 就应将实现性别平等视为一项商业上迫切需求。

We may have 500 different definitions of wealth, but we can all agree that we are all degraded by normalizing immoral inequity.

我们可能有500种同财富定义，但我们都认为， 将道德平等视为正常是让我们所有人都变得低下。

The other thing is, in order to take all the opinions and ideas seriously, people had to see each other as equal.

另一要点在于， 为了认真对待所有意见和想法，人们必须相互视为平等。 这一原则至今未变。

The clouds parted and women began to be regarded, if not as equal, but as deserving of equal rights.

云开雾散，女性开始被视为仅是有平等地位，而是值得拥有平等权利。

Moral imagination starts by seeing others as equal to ourselves, neither above nor below us, neither idealizing nor victimizing.

道德想象始于将他人视为与我们平等， 既高人一等， 也低人一等，既理想化， 也将其视为受害者。

Equal rights  to have a job, to have respect and not be viewed as a piece of meat.

拥有工作、受到尊重且被视为一块肉平等权利。

They wanted to live in a land that treated them as equals–a land filled with hamburger stands.

他们想生活在一片将他们视为平等土地上——一片遍布汉堡摊大地。