職場(chǎng)下午茶：憤怒可以讓你走得更遠(yuǎn)
I believe that a little outrage can take you a long way.
我相信憤怒一點(diǎn)，可以讓你走的更遠(yuǎn)。
I remember the exact moment when I discovered outrage as a kind of fuel. It was about 1980. I was 17, the daughter of Bolivian immigrants growing up in suburban Detroit. After a dinner table conversation with my family about the wars going on in Central America and the involvement of the United States (my country by birth and my parents' country by choice)， a good friend said the thing that set me off. He told me that he thought the U.S. might someday go to war somewhere in Latin America. He looked me in the eye and told me that if it happens, he believes my parents belong in an internment camp just like the Japanese-Americans during World War II.
我清晰地記得自己是如何感受到憤怒是一種不可或缺的能量的。大約在1980年，那時(shí)，我剛好17歲，生活在底特律郊區(qū)的玻利維亞移民的女兒。那天的晚餐上，家人討論了正在中美爆發(fā)的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)和美國(guó)的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)情況(我出生的國(guó)家，我父母選擇的城市)，一個(gè)好朋友說(shuō)了一句讓我印象深刻的話，他說(shuō)美國(guó)總有一天會(huì)掀起拉丁美洲的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)，他盯著我，并對(duì)我說(shuō)，如果真是那樣，他確信我的父母會(huì)像二戰(zhàn)當(dāng)中的日籍美國(guó)人那樣作為戰(zhàn)俘被抓起來(lái)。
Now this was someone who knew us, who had sat at our table and knew how American we are. We are a little exotic maybe, but it never occurred to me that we were anything but an American family. For my friend, as for many others, there will always be doubt as to whether we really belong in this country, which is our home, enough doubt to justify taking away our freedom. My outrage that day became the propellant of my life, driving me straight to the civil rights movement, where I’ve worked ever since.
這個(gè)和我們說(shuō)這句話的人，是一個(gè)正坐在我家飯桌邊的人，一個(gè)知道我們是移民的人�；蛟S我們有一點(diǎn)異族的血統(tǒng)，但是我從來(lái)沒(méi)有想過(guò)我們并不是一個(gè)真正地道的美國(guó)家庭。但是，對(duì)我的這個(gè)朋友，還有其他的朋友而言，他們心里總是疑問(wèn)，對(duì)我們是否可以真正融入這個(gè)所謂的家庭，我們的自由會(huì)不會(huì)這個(gè)家剝走。那天的憤怒是我整個(gè)人生的推動(dòng)力，直接將我推向了公民權(quán)利運(yùn)動(dòng)。
I guess outrage got me pretty far. I found jobs in the immigrant rights movement. I moved to Washington to work as an advocate. I found plenty more to be angry about along the way and built something of a reputation for being strident. Someone once sent my mom an article about my work. She was proud and everything but wanted to know why her baby was described as "ferocious."
我想，憤怒讓我走了很遠(yuǎn)。我參加了移民權(quán)利運(yùn)動(dòng)，我搬到了華盛頓，擁護(hù)這個(gè)運(yùn)動(dòng)。我找到了更多讓自己憤怒的理由，我也因?yàn)樽约旱拇潭穆曇魳?shù)立了自己的聲譽(yù)。有人一度寫信給我的`母親，告訴她我的工作，她很驕傲，但是不清楚為何我會(huì)被稱之為“殘忍的人”。
Anger has a way, though, of hollowing out your insides. In my first job, if we helped 50 immigrant families in a day, the faces of the five who didn't qualify haunted my dreams at night. When I helped pass a bill in Congress to help Americans reunite with their immigrant families, I could only think of my cousin who didn't qualify and who had to wait another decade to get her immigration papers.
憤怒是一種掏空你所有心思的力量。我才參加工作的時(shí)候，如果我們每天幫助50戶移民家庭，5個(gè)沒(méi)有資格的家庭就會(huì)像噩夢(mèng)一樣纏繞著我。當(dāng)我成功推出一向議案，移民者可以和美國(guó)本地人成為一家人的時(shí)候，我想到的只是我那個(gè)沒(méi)有資格的表妹，她需要再等上10年。
It's like that every day. You have victories but your defeats outnumber them by far, and you remember the names and faces of those who lost. I still have the article about the farm worker who took his life after we lost a political fight. I have not forgotten his name — and not just because his last name was the same as mine. His story reminds me of why I do this work and how little I can really do.
每一天都是這樣。你會(huì)有所收獲，但是你的失敗更多，而你記住的往往是那些讓你失望的。我曾經(jīng)寫過(guò)一篇文章，是關(guān)于一個(gè)農(nóng)民的，在我們一次議案失敗之后，他結(jié)束了自己的生命。我沒(méi)有忘記他的名字——不僅僅是因?yàn)樗臀倚找粯�，而是他的故事每時(shí)每刻都在提醒我，我為什么要這樣做，我能做的事情又是多么的少。
I am deeply familiar with that hollow place that outrage carves in your soul. I've fed off of it to sustain my work for many years. But it hasn't eaten me away completely, maybe because the hollow place gets filled with other, more powerful things like compassion, faith, family, music, the goodness of people around me. These things fill me up and temper my outrage with a deep sense of gratitude that I have the privilege of doing my small part to make things better.
我很清楚憤怒能夠在人的心靈中燃燒出多大的漏洞，我的工作已經(jīng)做了很多年了，我已經(jīng)有些厭倦了，但是我沒(méi)有徹底地放棄，或許我的心靈正被一些其他的，更有力量的，像激情，信仰，家庭，音樂(lè)和人們的善意填充著。所以這些都在幫助我，將我的憤怒轉(zhuǎn)化成五金的感激，讓我深深地知道自己所做的這些是多么的微小。
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