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

When I Shall Fight - Appeal to Reason - 1915

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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 work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

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

Canton Anti-war Speech - 1918

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Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like all other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Published in the Chicago Socialist - 1902 What's the matter with Chicago? - 1902

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The very moment a workingman begins to do his own thinking he understands the paramount issue, parts company with the capitalist politician and falls in line with his own class on the political battlefield. The political solidarity of the working class means the death of despotism, the birth of freedom, the sunrise of civilization.

The Socialist Party and the Working Class - 1904 Opening Speech Delivered as Presidential Candidate of the Socialist Party, Indianapolis, Indiana.

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The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

Revolution - New York Worker - 1907

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I would rather be friendless out on the American desert than to be friendless in New York or Chicago.

"The Issue" - Speech delivered at Girard, Kansas - 1908

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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 is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

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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While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal class I am of it. While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Labour and Freedom.

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Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and fallen and bruised itself, and risen again; been seized by the throat and choked and clubbed into insensibility; enjoined by courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, shot down by regulars, traduced by the press, frowned upon by public opinion, deceived by politicians, threatened by priests, repudiated by renegades, preyed upon by grafters, infested by spies, deserted by cowards, betrayed by traitors, bled by leeches, and sold out by leaders, but notwithstanding all this, and all these, it is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

An Ideal Labor Press - The Metal Worker - 1904

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