Eugene V. Debs Quotes

• Me opongo a un orden social en el que es posible que un hombre que no hace absolutamente nada útil amase una fortuna de cientos de millones de dólares, mientras millones de hombres y mujeres que trabajan todos los días de su vida apenas consiguen lo suficiente para una existencia miserable.

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  Money, Women, Order

  Statement to the Court, delivered 14 [or 18] September 1918, Federal Court of Cleveland, Ohio

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• Los partidos Republicano y Demócrata o, para ser más exactos, el partido Republicano-Demócrata, representan a la clase capitalista en la lucha de clases. Son las alas políticas del sistema capitalista y las diferencias que surgen entre ellos tienen que ver con el botín y no con los principios.

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  Party, Struggle, Class

  "The Socialist Party and the Working Class". Eugene V. Debs' opening speech as Presidential candidate of the Socialist Party in Indianapolis, Indiana, www.marxists.org. September 1, 1904.

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• I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

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  Choices, Political, Voting

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• The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

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  Government, Class, Scales

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

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  Years, Class, Soul

  Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918

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• The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.

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  War, Class, Battle

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• Sí, soy el guardián de mi hermano. Tengo para con él una obligación moral inspirada, no por un sentimentalismo sensiblero, sino por el deber superior que me debo a mí mismo. ¿Qué pensaríais de mí si fuera capaz de sentarme a la mesa y atiborrarme de comida y viera a mi alrededor a los hijos de mis semejantes muriéndose de hambre?

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  Brother, Children, Helping Others

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• El progreso nace de la agitación. Es agitación o estancamiento.

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  Progress, Agitation, Born

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

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  Done, Answers, Demand

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• Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but the comparative few who are beneficiaries of this iniquitous social arrangement, far from being viewed as criminals meriting punishment, are the exalted rulers of society, and the people they exploit gladly render them homage and obeisance.

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  Mean, Punishment, People

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• I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the irregular army of the people. I refuse to obey any command to fight from the ruling class, but I will not wait to be commanded to fight for the working class. I am opposed to every war but one; I am for that war with heart and soul, and that is the world-wide war of social revolution. In that war I am prepared to fight in any way the ruling class may make necessary, even to the barricades.

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  Guerra, Corazón, Lucha

  "In What War Shall I Take Up Arms and Fight?" by Eugene V. Debs, www.marxists.org. September 1915.

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• No tengo ningún país por el que luchar; mi país es la tierra, y soy ciudadano del mundo.

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  Country, Fighting, Countries Of The World

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• If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. 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.

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  Glowing, Cities, Would Be

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

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  Freedom, War, Self

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• The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.

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  Rogues, Dangerous, Robbers

  Eugene V. Debs' speech at Nimisilla Park in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), later published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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• 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 for a man to steal in order to live.

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  Creer, Hombres, Orden

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• The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

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  Rights, Sacred, Millions

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage... I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves.

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  Freedom, Long, Mind

  "Industrial Unionism". Eugene V. Debs' address at Grand Central Palace in New York (December 10, 1905), later published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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• La clase económica propietaria es siempre la clase política dominante.

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  Class, Political, Economic

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• If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

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  Average, Today, Chance

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• Sé fiel a ti mismo y no podrás ser traidor a ninguna buena causa en la tierra.

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  Earth, Causes, Be True To Yourself

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

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  Criminals, Needs, Prison

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• The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

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  Struggle, Revolution, Heroic

  "Revolution" by Eugene V. Debs in "New York Worker", www.marxists.org. April 27, 1907.

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• When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.

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  Brother, Race, Hands

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

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  Solidarity, Labor Union

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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