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Anybody can be nobody but it takes a man to be somebody.
Eugene V. Debs
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Eugene V. Debs
Age: 70 †
Born: 1855
Born: November 5
Died: 1926
Died: October 20
Peace Activist
Political Leader
Politician
Trade Unionist
Terre Haute
Indiana
Eugene Victor Debs
Eugene Debs
Convict Number 9653
inmate number 9653
9653
Convict No. 9653
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The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
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When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.
Eugene V. Debs
No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
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Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.
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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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The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.
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Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.
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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 master class has always declared the wars the subject class has always fought the battles.
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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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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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I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.
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If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
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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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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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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.
Eugene V. Debs
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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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 rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
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