“There is blood in my veins
That has run clear of the stain
Contracted in so many loins.”
R.S. Thomas (1913–2000) Welsh poet
"Here"
Tares (1961)
“The blood of three oppressed races runs in my veins.”
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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