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Quotes from The Socialist Party and the Working Class — Eugene V. Debs

1855–1926 United States

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15 quotes

The working class must be emancipated by the working class.

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There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth.

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The people are as capable of achieving their industrial freedom as they were to secure their political liberty, and both are necessary to a free nation.

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Ignorance alone stands in the way of socialist success. The capitalist parties understand this and use their resources to prevent the workers from seeing the light.
Intellectual darkness is essential to industrial slavery.

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The political solidarity of the working class means the death of despotism, the birth of freedom, the sunrise of civilization.

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They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.

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War, bloody war, must be ended by the working class.

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Child labor must be abolished by the working class.

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Civilization has done little for labor except to modify the forms of its exploitation.

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The united vote of those who toil and have not will vanquish those who have and toil not, and solve forever the problems of democracy.

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The hand tools of early times are used no more. Mammoth machines have taken their place. A few thousand capitalists own them and many millions of workingmen use them.

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The capitalist class is represented by the Republican, Democratic, Populist and Prohibition parties, all of which stand for private ownership of the means of production, and the triumph of any one of which will mean continued wage-slavery to the working class.

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The very moment a workingman begins to do his own thinking he understands the paramount issue, parts company with the capitalist politician and falls in line with his own class on the political battlefield.

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With faith and hope and courage we hold our heads erect and with dauntless spirit marshal the working class for the march from Capitalism to Socialism, from Slavery to Freedom, from Barbarism to Civilization.

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Capitalism is dying and its extremities are already decomposing. The blotches upon the surface show that the blood no longer circulates. The time is near when the cadaver will have to be removed and the atmosphere purified.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eugene V. Debs (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.