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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.

— Eugene V. Debs

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Source: As quoted in "Life of Eugene V. Debs" by Stephen Marion Reynolds, in Debs : His Life, Writings and Speeches (1908) edited by Bruce Rogers and Stephen Marion Reynolds, p. 71
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