It is what it is, and there are much greater injustices to fight. Jean Prouvaire has his own conspicuousness, after all, and only some of it is chosen.
"We've known that the fight for a truly equal world is a longer road than we hoped. But still a road upwards, and at each rise the dawn is brighter. You're still right, my friend. A society must allow each of its citizens to live as himself, equal to all others, given opportunity to make of himself what he wills, so long as he respects their rights in turn."
"The trouble in that world is the same as ours, at root: that society chose to blind itself to certain of its members in favor of others, by reason of chance and birth."
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"We've known that the fight for a truly equal world is a longer road than we hoped. But still a road upwards, and at each rise the dawn is brighter. You're still right, my friend. A society must allow each of its citizens to live as himself, equal to all others, given opportunity to make of himself what he wills, so long as he respects their rights in turn."
"The trouble in that world is the same as ours, at root: that society chose to blind itself to certain of its members in favor of others, by reason of chance and birth."