"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear ...
Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men
~ Victor Hugo ~
Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men
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"Darks drifts covered the horizon. A strange shadow approaching nearer and nearer, was spreading little by little over men, over things, over ideas; a ...
"At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philos...
"Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, their eyes fixed upon Enjolras, had not even noticed ...
"Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
"Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as...
"Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does n...
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, bu...
"While a battle still entirely political was preparing in this same place which had already seen so many revolutionary events, while the youth, the sec...
"At five in the morning, some policemen, unannounced, entered the house of a man named Pardon, later a member of the section of the Barricade-Merry, an...
"The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very movement, closed the door o...
"There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.
"All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil.The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the government. No singul...
"In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the day when all will be peace, harmony...
"Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior ...