A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains. (Leon Trotsky)

A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains.

Leon Trotsky

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