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Quotation from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
“Every unit of whom has his own heart and sorrows; stands covered there with his own skin, and if you prick him he will bleed”
The French Revolution: A History, Vol. I, Book II (The Paper Age), Ch. II, 'Petition in Hieroglyphs' (Project Gutenberg #1301)
Carlyle rejects the court's habit of lumping the poor together as 'the masses' and echoes Shylock's plea to insist on each person's common humanity.
Citation: "Every unit of whom has his own heart and sorrows; stands covered there with his own skin, and if you prick him he will bleed" — Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, Vol. I, Book II (The Paper Age), Ch. II, 'Petition in Hieroglyphs' (Project Gutenberg #1301). (id the-french-revolution-carlyle-q3)
