First, the permeating and victimizing fact of human degradation, symbolized by the Southern struggle against racial bigotry, compelled most of us from silence to activism.

• 首先是南方反种族偏见斗争所昭示的无所不在、令人痛苦的人格贬黜的事实，迫使我们大多数人从沉默变为积极行动。