Multatuli
writer · the Netherlands · Java · 1820–1887
Born Eduard Douwes Dekker. As an official in the Dutch East Indies he reported to his superiors what was being done to the farmers of Java, and resigned. His pen name is Latin for "I have borne much."
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1860 · Answering a superior's reproach that he was in too much of a hurry
As if an honest man could sleep, and live, and enjoy himself, while those whose welfare he is called to watch over, those who are in the highest sense his neighbours, are being gagged and bled dry!
Als een eerlyk man slapen kon, en leven en genieten, zoo lang zy voor wier welzyn hy geroepen is te waken, zy die in den hoogsten zin zyn naasten zyn, worden gekneveld en uitgezogen!
Max Havelaar
1 in 100 Billion · The social network of those who came before us