Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors… - Georg Büchner

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Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.

Georg Büchner

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Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner.

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Alternative Names: Karl Georg Büchner • Georg Buchner

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