Time for Outrage!

Time for Outrage! is the English edition of Indignez-vous !, the pamphlet that Stéphane Hessel, a former member of the French Resistance and a survivor of Buchenwald, published in France in October 2010. In a few pages, written when he was 93, he urges readers to find their own reasons for outrage and to act on them without violence.

Hessel points to the gap between rich and poor, the influence of finance over politics, the treatment of immigrants and the erosion of the social programme drawn up by the Resistance's National Council after the war, including social security and pensions. He also writes about the situation in Palestine. The pamphlet sold hundreds of thousands of copies within months, nearly 1.5 million in France, and has been translated into many languages, including the German Empört Euch!