"It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been w...
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.
~ Karl Marx ~
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"Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.
"Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
"Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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