Young Soldier: I’m not going to listen. This is an injustice and injustice is something I will not endure. Mother Courage: Oh really? Gives you a problem, does it? Injustice? How long can you put up with it for? Is an hour difficult? Or does it bug you for two? Because in the sticks, I tell you, there’s this strange sort of moment when people suddenly think, oh perhaps I can put up with injustice after all. Bertolt Brecht, Mother and Her Children
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