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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Eugene V. Debs
Born: November 5, 1855
Died: October 20, 1926 (aged 70)
Bio: Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
Known for:
- Labor and freedom (1916)
- Walls & Bars
- Gentle rebel
- Debs; with a Department of Appreciations
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