Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces.… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead you out… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution,… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.” — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“{Letter from Debbs to Eva Ingersoll, husband of Robert Ingersoll , just after the news of Robert's death} We were inexpressibly shocked to hear… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
