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In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

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Voices of a People's History of the United States

While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there i...

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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, some...

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Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there ...

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I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...

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The workers are the saviors of society the redeemers of the race.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are ...

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Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agita...

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I know that the Kaiser incarnates all there is of brute force and of murder. And yet I would not, if...

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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 t...

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

I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the chur...

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If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with...

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When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are ...

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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 b...

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In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

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Voices of a People's History of the United States

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Eugene V. Debs

Political leader

Born: 1855-11-05

Died: 1926-10-20

Eugene Victor Debs (5 November 1855 – 20 October 1926) was an American labor and political leader and five-time Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States.More