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While there is a lower class, I am in it." - Eugene Debs
— Leonard Richardson
The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves ...
— Eugene V. Debs
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.
— Eugene V. Debs
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— Eugene V. Debs
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
— Eugene V. Debs
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.
— Eugene V. Debs
The press and the pulpit have in every age and every nation been on the side of the exploiting class and the ruling class.
— Eugene V. Debs
A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
— Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
— Clarence Darrow
The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
— Eugene V. Debs
It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.
— Eugene V. Debs
The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be ruthlessly supressed.
— Eugene V. Debs
I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.
— Eugene V. Debs
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
— Eugene V. Debs
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.
— Eugene V. Debs
I may not be able to say all I think, but I am not going to say anything I do not think.
— Eugene V. Debs
The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.
— Eugene V. Debs
You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
— Eugene V. Debs
Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.
— Eugene V. Debs
Anybody can be nobody, but it takes a man to be somebody.
— Eugene V. Debs
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.
— Eugene V. Debs
Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.
— Eugene V. Debs
The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.
— Eugene V. Debs
The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
— Eugene V. Debs
The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.
— Eugene V. Debs
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
— Eugene V. Debs
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
— Eugene V. Debs
Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
— Eugene V. Debs
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
— Eugene V. Debs
I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.
— Eugene V. Debs
We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.
— Eugene V. Debs
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
— Eugene V. Debs
A privately owned world can never be a free world and a society based upon warring classes cannot stand.
— Eugene V. Debs
I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.
— Eugene V. Debs
