A review by mattroche
Indignez-vous ! by Stéphane Hessel

4.0

If you are not angry, you are not paying attention. It is not the MAGAs or the woke, it is the interests of the wealthy and powerful and their rejection of the postwar consensus that all men and women are equal.

The language is a throwback (reminds me of E.B. White on Democracy). But it is straightforward, direct, and correct. If you disagree with Hessel, you are likely wrong, not just because he escaped two concentration camps, participated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or was a member of the Resistance in France.

Hessel isn’t even right because he was 93 and seen everything. He is right because for most of those 93 years he was awake and cared deeply about *all* humans.

Do you?

Aux armes, les citoyens!