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1760–1797 France
François-Noël Babeuf, known as Gracchus Babeuf, (23 November 1760 - 27 May 1797) (8 prairial year V), was a French revolutionary. He fomented the conjuration des Égaux (conspiracy of the Equals) against the Directory to enforce the constitution of 1793.
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Oppression exists when one person exhausts himself through toil and still lacks everything, while another swims in abundance without doing any work at all.
We shall distinguish in Robespierre two men, apostle of liberty, and Robespierre the most infamous of tyrants.
If the people are sovereign, they must themselves exercise as much as they can of the sovereignty.
The knowledge of feudal practices is the reason why I was perhaps the most formidable scourge of feudalism.
No one can by the accumulation of all mediums deprive others of the instruction necessary for their happiness; the instruction must be communal.
Nature having given no property to anyone.
Nor does it impose silence on this sex which does not deserve to be despised.
Feudalism is but a system of Slaves and Tyrants; my country, desiring to be free, can no longer preserve anything in this system.
Admitting inequality is subscribing to a depravity of the species.
Property is odious in its principle and murderous in its effects.
The true citizen prefers the general advantage to his advantage.
He is and will be an advocate only for the poor.
Relearning and more difficult than learning.
There has never been anything great done in the world except through the courage and resolve of one man who defies the prejudices of the multitude.
The pretended superiority of man over woman, and the despotic authority which he arrogates over her, have the same origin as the domination of the nobility.
It was in the dust of the seigneurial archives that I discovered the frightful mysteries of the usurpations of the noble caste.
I vow to call a priest, in other words, charlatans, impostors, all those whom I shall see deviate from the line of the rights of man.
The husband and the wife must be equal.
We must advance ... because Christianity and freedom are incompatible
I confess today in good faith that I am angry with myself for having formerly seen in a bad light, and the revolutionary government, and Robespierre and Saint-Just. I believe that these men were worth more on their own than all the revolutionaries together.
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