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• Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

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  Earth, Causes, Be True To Yourself

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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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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  Average, Today, Chance

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• The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

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  Class, Political, Economic

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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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  Class, Remember, Republican

  "Outlook for Socialism in the United States" by Eugene V. Debs in "International Socialist Review", www.marxists.org. September 1900.

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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.

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  Brother, Race, Hands

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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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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  Civilization, Issues, Long

  Eugene V. Debs' open letter to the American Railway Union, as quoted in "Chicago Railway Times", January 1, 1897.

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• Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.

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  War, Fighting, Men

  Eugene V. Debs' speech he gave across the street from a jail, where he had just visited three socialists who were in prison for opposing the draft, June 1918.

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• Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.

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  Hands, Saving, Riches

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• I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

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  Humanity, Socialism

  Eugene V. Debs' open letter to the American Railway Union, as quoted in "Chicago Railway Times", January 1, 1897.

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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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  Party, Political, Together

  "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches". Book edited by Stephen Marion Reynolds and Bruce Rogers, 1908.

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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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  Honesty, Oneness, Effort

  "A Plea for Solidarity". The International Socialist Review, Vplume XIV, No. 9, March 1914.

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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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  Men, Humiliating

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas (May 23, 1908), later published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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• No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

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  Peace, War, People

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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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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  Peace, Military, War

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

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  War, Class, Battle

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

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  Thug, Labour Movement, Political

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• I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

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  Children, Military, Training

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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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  Want, Economy, Produce

  "Industrial Unionism". Eugene V. Debs' address at Grand Central Palace in New York (December 10, 1905), later published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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• Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.

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  Greatness, Men

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, www.marxists.org. June 16, 1918.

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• I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.

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  Spiritual, War, Believe

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• I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

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  Wall, War, Fighting

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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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  Life, Intelligent, Civilization

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.

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  People, Want, Trouble

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• Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

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  Intelligent, Civilization, Progress

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act in harmony together. Craft unionism is the negation of solidarity. The more unions you have, the less unity.

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  Army, Long, Unity

  "Class Unionism". Eugene V. Debs' speech in South Chicago (November 24, 1905), later published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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