Eugene V. Debs Quotes

Eugene V. Debs — American Politician born on November 05, 1855, died on October 20, 1926

Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States... (wikipedia)

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

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

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.

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.

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.