Monday, October 31, 2011

Stéphane Frédéric Hessel-Occupy WHAT?

What makes one wake up and begin to pay attention? When is enough, enough? Stéphane Frédéric Hessel, former French resistance fighter, member of the committee responsible for drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted by the United Nations in 1948) and the still very spry ninety-three year old former French diplomat and author knows. In Time for Outrage he breaks it down.






This is an excerpt from Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous! by Stephane Hessel. Translation by Marion Duvert. Copyright 2010 by Indigene Editions. Reprinted by permission of Twelve/Hachette Book Group. All rights reserved.


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