We've got rights the right to starve We've got jobs waiting for work We're all brothers lousy and dirty We're all free and equal to die like dogs
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker sarcastically lists rights that are actually deprivations and shared misery.
- In plain terms
- We are equally poor and destined to die.
- What can you take from it?
- Equality in suffering is not true freedom.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What rights should exist?
- Is equality enough?
Another view
It uses irony that may obscure the message.
More from Peter Weiss
Only in his poetry did he have the courage to love.
Permalink to quote #3 Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's g…
Permalink to quote #5 In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.
Permalink to quote #2
Related quotes
What is more important is that these are not separate or distinct threats. When we scratch the surface, we find them closely connected and interrelated. We are…
Mohamed ElBaradeiMohamed ElBaradei quote #14 It is one thing to assure a man the legal right to eat in a restaurant; it is another thing to assure that he can earn the money to eat there.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy quote #48 It is one thing to assure a man the legal right to eat in a restaurant; it is another thing to assure that he can earn the money to eat there.
Robert F. KennedyRobert F. Kennedy quote #48