Victor Hugo Quotes
...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Translated by Charles E. Wilbour, Carleton, 1862.
Referring to President Ronald Reagan whose administration was very good for the wealthy and the large corporations but economically was the start of a downward spiral in the income of the lower middle and lower classes of the society. Reagan and many politicians of both parties were often oblivious to the lives of people not in the upper strata of society. It was not so much that they were against the middle class and poor; they just did not have much contact with them and their plight was list in the averaging of economic statistics that showed increasing income.
In many of the non—slave states, free negroes were not allowed to enter or reside in the state
Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.
