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Eugene V Debs Inspirational Quotes (43)

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The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.
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Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.
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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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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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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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No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
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If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.
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I may not be able to say all I think but I am not going to say anything I do not think.
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Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
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If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
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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 supressed.
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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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Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.
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Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage... I would not lead you out if I could for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves.
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The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.
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In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.
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When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
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A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
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I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
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