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"Max Havelaar" Quotes
"Max Havelaar" by Multatuli is a powerful critique of Dutch colonial exploitation in Indonesia, told through the story of a Dutch civil servant who exposes the injustices faced by native villagers under corrupt colonial rule.
Quotes
I am a servant of the king and therefore I serve the people.
Oh, beloved earth! When will the time come that you can rejoice without trembling?
There is a magic force in that word: independence.
To be silent when one should protest, makes cowards out of men.
Man, what is man, if he does not make the world better?
Who am I, that I should play with life or death?
Injustice wears a thousand masks.
Oh my God! I am not eloquent!
There is no one so blind as those who do not want to see.
There must be justice in the land, or the people will be driven to revolt.
