Eugene V. Debs
Politician
1855-11-05
Quotes by Eugene V. Debs
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While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free.
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I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.
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While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.
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In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People., June 16, 1918)
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While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free.
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Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.
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While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.
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In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People., June 16, 1918)
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Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
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Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
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While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
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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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Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.
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