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I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs
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Eugene V. Debs
Age: 70 †
Born: 1855
Born: November 5
Died: 1926
Died: October 20
Peace Activist
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Eugene Victor Debs
Eugene Debs
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Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.
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The master class has always declared the wars the subject class has always fought the battles.
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A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
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As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and that the many small ones, like the fewer large ones, are all politically supporting their class interests, and this is always and everywhere the capitalist class.
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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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Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
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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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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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Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.
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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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I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.
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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 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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Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.
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They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
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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 people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.
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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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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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I do not want you to follow me or anyone else if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.
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