“We've got rights the right to starve
We've got jobs waiting for work
We're all brothers lousy and dirty
We're all free and equal to die like dogs”

Patients, act 1, scene 6 (p. 11)
Marat/Sade (1963)

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Swedish-German playwright and author 1916–1982

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