forced to occupy a filthy smoking car, both night and day,

被迫坐进一节冒烟的车厢不论日夜
with drunkards, gamblers and criminals, and for what?

周围全是酒鬼赌徒罪犯为什么
Not that I am unable or unwilling to pay my way,

不是我没钱买车票
not that I am obnoxious in my personal appearance

不是我的仪表令人厌恶
or disrespectful in my conduct,

也不是我举止无礼
but simply because I happen to be of a darker complexion "

只是我肤色比较深而已"
Now here's the irony and the point

讽刺的状况是
The majority of those men he was speaking to that day in the Congress,

当天在国会听他演讲的大多数
in their minds, when they heard him,

他们虽然在听但脑子里想的
to the extent they listened when he said that,

边听边想
I think we can safely assume were thinking,

我看咱们不妨猜测
yeah, that's just exactly the way you should be treated

对你就该接受这种待遇