PugJesus"We were bad, but now we're good" vs. "Let me twirl my mustache a little"
WIST Quotations You are right, sir, when you tell me that Les Misérables is written for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines traced upon the map.
In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the hearth which should warm him, the book of Les Misérables knocks at the door and says: “Open to me, I come for you.”
[Vous avez raison, monsieur, quand vous me dites que le livre les Misérables est écrit pour tous les peuples. Je ne sais s’il sera lu par tous, mais je l’ai écrit pour tous. Il s’adresse à l’Angleterre autant qu’à l’Espagne, à l’Italie autant qu’à la France, à l’Allemagne autant qu’à l’Irlande, aux républiques qui ont des esclaves aussi bien qu’aux empires qui ont des serfs. Les problèmes sociaux dépassent les frontières. Les plaies du genre humain, ces larges plaies qui couvrent le globe, ne s’arrêtent point aux lignes bleues ou rouges tracées sur la mappemonde.
Partout où l’homme ignore et désespère, partout où la femme se vend pour du pain, partout où l’enfant souffre faute d’un livre qui l’enseigne et d’un foyer qui le réchauffe, le livre les Misérables frappe à la porte et dit: Ouvrez-moi, je viens pour vous.]
In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the hearth which should warm him, the book of Les Misérables knocks at the door and says: “Open to me, I come for you.”
[Vous avez raison, monsieur, quand vous me dites que le livre les Misérables est écrit pour tous les peuples. Je ne sais s’il sera lu par tous, mais je l’ai écrit pour tous. Il s’adresse à l’Angleterre autant qu’à l’Espagne, à l’Italie autant qu’à la France, à l’Allemagne autant qu’à l’Irlande, aux républiques qui ont des esclaves aussi bien qu’aux empires qui ont des serfs. Les problèmes sociaux dépassent les frontières. Les plaies du genre humain, ces larges plaies qui couvrent le globe, ne s’arrêtent point aux lignes bleues ou rouges tracées sur la mappemonde.
Partout où l’homme ignore et désespère, partout où la femme se vend pour du pain, partout où l’enfant souffre faute d’un livre qui l’enseigne et d’un foyer qui le réchauffe, le livre les Misérables frappe à la porte et dit: Ouvrez-moi, je viens pour vous.]
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Letter (1862-10-18) to M. Daelli
More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/13238/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #borders #downtrodden #economicinjustice #global #humancondition #poor #poverty #serfdom #slavery #socialills #socialinjustice #socialproblem
Hugo, Victor - Letter (1862-10-18) to M. Daelli | WIST Quotations
You are right, sir, when you tell me that Les Misérables is written for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to Italy as well as to France,…
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD#Serfdom was a condition of virtual slavery once common in #mediaeval Europe. By the time it was abolished with the #EmancipationManifesto of #AleksandrII on #ThisDayInHistory in 1861, #Russia was the last hold-out. It was another five years before state-owned #serfs were freed.
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋🇷🇺 **How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century**
"_Our findings reveal that serfdom resulted in high inequality and extraction levels as well as low social mobility despite of low levels of enforcement by the state. We compare our results with those for 1904 and find that, in spite of emancipation, inequality remained high during the nineteenth century._"
Korchmina, E. and Malinowski, M. (2026) ‘How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century’, The Journal of Economic History, pp. 1–42. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050725101071.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Economics #Serfdom #Russia #Moscow #Inequality #C19th #Academia
sammypandait's actually not okay the extremes it takes for some folks to leave Twitter. O_o
and still, some people (who don't personally agree with the many issues) just *still* linger on there casually, seemingly immovable.
Like, anti-consumer, monolithic, data-harvesty platforms that you submit misused personal info to. That should be bad enough, but instead, the effective standard we have as a global community is wayyy too low.
"This will have no consequences and will surely assist Russia in being ruled by Unshakable Autocracy(tm) forever!"
Stephen Elliott~BuckleyThat's a bold wake up for a morning commute!
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #capitalism #serfdom #commuters
Alexandra Beekers 🏳️🌈🌍#Trans lives are not a debate. You make it one because you are a #bigot.
(And you probably don’t know the science and are afraid to learn because it would separate you from your toxic community. #serfdom)
#transphobia #TransRightsAreHumanRights
(And you probably don’t know the science and are afraid to learn because it would separate you from your toxic community. #serfdom)
#transphobia #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Kerstin GürkeTaras Schewtschenko
(1814-1861)
Der bedeutende ukrainische National-Dichter und Zeichner, der aus der Leibeigenschaft freigekauft wurde.
#ukrainianpoet #ukraine🇺🇦 #poetry #writer #artist, #serfdom
#folklorist #ethnographer #kobzar #importantpoet
#langenacht #deutschlandradiokultur #portrait #inkportrait #ink #inksketch #sketchbook #berlin
(1814-1861)
Der bedeutende ukrainische National-Dichter und Zeichner, der aus der Leibeigenschaft freigekauft wurde.
#ukrainianpoet #ukraine🇺🇦 #poetry #writer #artist, #serfdom
#folklorist #ethnographer #kobzar #importantpoet
#langenacht #deutschlandradiokultur #portrait #inkportrait #ink #inksketch #sketchbook #berlin
On 14 June 1381, #WatTyler and an army of peasants seized the Tower of London, the only time it fell. King Richard II agreed to parley, pledging to end #serfdom. On #ThisDayInHistory Tyler met the king and was instead executed and 1500 rebels were hanged. Do not trust the state.
