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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.
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
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Eugene Victor Debs
Eugene Debs
Convict Number 9653
inmate number 9653
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Convict No. 9653
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Anybody can be nobody but it takes a man to be somebody.
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Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.
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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 workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
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The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
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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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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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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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Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.
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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 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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Thousands of years ago the question was asked: Am I my brother's keeper? That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.
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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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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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No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
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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 issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society - we are on the eve of universal change.
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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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The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.
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I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
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