Quotes About Injustice

Les miserables

Poor children cannot enter the public gardens; still, one would think that, as children, they had a right to the flowers.

The faults of women, children and servants,' he said, 'and of the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the faults of husbands, fathers and masters, and of the strong, the rich and the learned.

Men had only touched him to bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away with him when he departed.

Listen, Monsieur Director, here's what I think. Obviously this is wrong. There are twenty-six of you in five or six small rooms; there are three of us in space enough for sixty. That is wrong, I assure you. You have my house and I am in yours. Give me back mine and this will be your home.

In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack

He flew into a rage on every occasion, most frequently when wrong.

Because things are unpleasant, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust toward God.

We live in a sad society. Succeed - that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption.

La suprema miseria porge occasione alle oscenità.

of all scaffolds, the political one is the most abominable, the most fatal, the most mischievous, the most necessary to extirpate.

O ódio ao ensino dos filhos do povo era um dogma.

On dit que l'esclavage a disparu de la civilisation européenne. C'est une erreur. Il existe toujours, mais il ne pèse plus que sur la femme, et il s'appelle prostitution.

La sofferenza sociale incomincia a qualunque età.

Moreover, the Cardinal de Bourbon was a handsome man,—he wore a fine scarlet robe, which he carried off very well,—that is to say, he had all the women on his side, and, consequently, the best half of the audience. Assuredly, it would be injustice and bad taste to hoot a cardinal for having come late to the spectacle, when he is a handsome man, and when he wears his scarlet robe well.

Javier was born in a prison (...) he grew up to think himself without the pale of society and despaired of ever entering it. He noticed that society closes its doors without pity on two classes of men, those who attack it and those who guard it. He could choose between these two classes only.

In tempo di rivoluzione, fate attenzione alla prima testa che cade. Essa fa venire l'appetito al popolo.

Che cos'è, in fondo, questa storia di Fantine? È la società che compera una schiava. Da chi? Dalla miseria. Dalla fame, dal freddo, dall'isolamento, dall'abbandono, dallo squallore. Doloroso mercato! Un'anima per un pezzo di pane: la miseria offre, la società accetta.

Tudo o que tinha sido a sua vida desapareceu, incluindo o nome; deixou de ser Jean Valjean, para ser apenas o número 24601. O que aconteceu à sua irmã? O que aconteceu às sete crianças? Quem se preocupa com isso? O que é que acontece a um punhado de folhas de um arbusto esmagado pelos pés de quem passa?

Il avait appris l'histoire exprès pour s'indigner en connaissance de cause.

She worked like a dog to support us, doing whatever she had to do, but each night, at bedtime, she kissed me good night and told me I could be anything in America. It was the dream that had brought her here and she passed it on to me. But, it was a lie. For people like us, anyway. Folks who are from the wrong place, or have the wrong color skin, or speak the wrong language, or pray to the wrong God.

she knew what it was like to come here looking for better and be treated as worse

It should have been as easy as an elementary math equation: he hits you x broken bones = leave him.

She refused to let one man's prejudice hurt them after all they'd been through to get here. She was angry that Loreda and Ant had experienced such baseless prejudice, but life was full of such injustice.