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 w...
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution, and I vowed that I would never go inside a church again.[Eugene V. Debs, descr...
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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.
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.
I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
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.
Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.
I know that the Kaiser incarnates all there is of brute force and of murder. And yet I would not, if I had the power, kill the Kaiser. I would do to him what Thomas Paine wanted to do to the king of E...
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.
The American people can have anything they want the trouble is they don't know what they want.
The workers are the saviors of society the redeemers of the race.
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.