Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.
Eugene V. Debs
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Created
Protect
Must
Needs
Criminals
Capitalism
Prison
More quotes by 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.
Eugene V. Debs
A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
Eugene V. Debs
We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.
Eugene V. Debs
The master class has always declared the wars the subject class has always fought the battles.
Eugene V. Debs
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.
Eugene V. Debs
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.
Eugene V. Debs
The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
Eugene V. Debs
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.
Eugene V. Debs
Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.
Eugene V. Debs
No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
Eugene V. Debs
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.
Eugene V. Debs
Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Eugene V. Debs
I may not be able to say all I think but I am not going to say anything I do not think.
Eugene V. Debs
When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
Eugene V. Debs
The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.
Eugene V. Debs
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.
Eugene V. Debs
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.
Eugene V. Debs
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.
Eugene V. Debs
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
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
