Question

"it is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals."-jean-paul marat. the preceding quote is endorsing what movement?

Answer 1

Marat was a leader in the Montagnard group who were also really just a faction of a larger group called the Jacobins. This group then led the French Revolution in 1793 and 1794. The Montagnards specifically kept control of the French government during this time of revolution. As a journalist and philosopher Marat made many statements including the one above to rouse the people toward a revolutionary movement led by the Jacobins.