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It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.

Jean-Paul Marat

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Jean-Paul Marat
Age: 50 †
Born: 1743
Born: May 24
Died: 1793
Died: July 13
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