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You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.
Federal Court statement (1918)
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.
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.
Walls and Bars (1927)
The working class must be emancipated by the working class.
The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition; as it is now the capitalists use your heads and your hands.
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.
Debs (1971)
The worm turns at last, and so does the worker.
Arouse Ye Slaves! (1906)
If ever I become entirely respectable I shall be quite sure that I have outlived myself.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.
While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Federal Court statement (1918)
There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth.
The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like all other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
What's the matter with Chicago? (1902)
We can run the mills without them but they cannot run them without us.
Industrial Unionism (1905)
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.
For myself, I want no advantage over my fellow man, and if he is weaker than I, all the more is it my duty to help him.
The Negro and His Nemesis (1904)