Eugene Victor Debs Quotes

When the mariner, sailing over tropic seas, looks for relief from his weary watch, he turns his eyes toward the southern cross, burning luridly above the tempest-vexed ocean. As the midnight...

Eugene Victor Debs

Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act - 1918 Federal Court, Cleveland, Ohio. Speech recorded in court transcript.

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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...

Eugene Victor Debs

Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act - 1918 Federal Court, Cleveland, Ohio. Speech recorded in court transcript.

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In this country = the most favored beneath the bending skies = we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive...

Eugene Victor Debs

Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act - 1918 Federal Court, Cleveland, Ohio. Speech recorded in court transcript.

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Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind then that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there...

Eugene Victor Debs

Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act - 1918 Federal Court, Cleveland, Ohio. Speech recorded in court transcript.

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In due time the hour will strike and this great cause triumphant - the greatest in history - will proclaim the emancipation of the working class and the brotherhood of all mankind.

Eugene Victor Debs

Canton Anti-war Speech - 1918

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And now for all of us to do our duty! The clarion call is ringing in our ears and we cannot falter without being convicted of treason to ourselves and to our great cause. Do not worry over the charge...

Eugene Victor Debs

Canton Anti-war Speech - 1918

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They are continually talking about your patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to...

Eugene Victor Debs

Canton Anti-war Speech - 1918

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You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. You need to know that you were not created to work and produce and impoverish yourself...

Eugene Victor Debs

Canton Anti-war Speech - 1918

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If ever I become entirely respectable I shall be quite sure that I have outlived myself.

Eugene Victor Debs

Canton Anti-war Speech - 1918

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Yours not to reason why; Yours but to do and die. That is their motto and we object on the part of the awakening workers of this nation. If war is right let it be declared by the people. You who...

Eugene Victor Debs

Canton Anti-war Speech - 1918 First printed in The Call, 1918.

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