...When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, but when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse. (Theodor Herzl)

...When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, but when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

Theodor Herzl

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