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Men Quotes by Eugene V. Debs
- Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being…
- I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to…
- If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in…
- A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to…
- In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to…
- Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary…
- 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…
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