Eugene V. Debs

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.”

“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.”

“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)”

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

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