“The blood of three oppressed races runs in my veins.”

— Paul Lafargue

As quoted in [Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882, Derfler, Leslie, Harvard University Press, 1991, 11, https://books.google.com/books?id=L_E_OR6owEEC&pg=PA11]

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French politician 1842–1911

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“I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.”

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Context: Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.

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Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist

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