Eugene V. Debs Short Quotes

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The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

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The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

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When I rise it will be with the ranks and not from the ranks.

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The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

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The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

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I could have been in Congress long ago. I have preferred to go to prison.

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Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

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From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.

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I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.

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Civilization has done little for labor except to modify the forms of its exploitation.

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A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

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If ever I become entirely respectable I shall be quite sure that I have outlived myself.

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Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

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We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

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The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves...

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Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

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For myself, I want no advantage over my fellow man, and if he is weaker than I, all the more is it my duty to help him.

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It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.

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The political solidarity of the working class means the death of despotism, the birth of freedom, the sunrise of civilization.

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The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

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The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be ruthlessly supressed.

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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.

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The united vote of those who toil and have not will vanquish those who have and toil not, and solve forever the problems of democracy.

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The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

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The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

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The people are as capable of achieving their industrial freedom as they were to secure their political liberty, and both are necessary to a free nation.

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You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

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The hand tools of early times are used no more. Mammoth machines have taken their place. A few thousand capitalists own them and many millions of workingmen use them.

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The African is here and to stay. How came he to our shores? Ask your grandfathers, Mr. Anonymous, and if they will tell the truth you will or should blush for the crimes.

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