我并不是说美国人要袖手旁观，等待一个充满怀疑与绝望的短暂阶段自行消失。在此时此地生活着的美国人有权利获得生活质量的提高，而他们自己也必须为此付出努力。男女老少晚上不敢上街，他们有时害怕警察就像害怕罪犯，这二者有时看来就像他们彼此在镜中的影像，这些都不正常。
【参考译文】I am not suggesting that American sit back and wait for a transient period of distrust and despair to resolve itself. Americans who are living here now have a right to make the quality of their lives improved, and they themselves must also make the effort. It is quite abnormal that people of all ages and both sexes dare not go into the streets at night, and they fear the police as much as the criminals, both of whom sometimes look like mirror images of each other.”
