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• Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.

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  Struggle, Class, Tears

  "The American Movement" by Eugene V. Debs (1898), first published in "DEBS: His Life Writings and Speeches" in The Appeal to Reason Newspaper (pp. 95-117), www.marxists.org. 1908.

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• Prefiero mil veces ser un alma libre en la cárcel que ser un adulador y cobarde en las calles.

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  Jail, Soul, Coward

  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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• 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.

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  Land, Moses, Ifs

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• Thousands of years ago the question was asked: "Am I my brother's keeper?" That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.

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  Brother, Years, Way

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

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• The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

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  Prison, Should, Institutions

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• You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

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  Needs, Slavery, Fit

  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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• The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

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  Government, Protection, Failing

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• It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.

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  Helping Others, Volunteer, Done

  "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches". Book edited by Stephen Marion Reynolds and Bruce Rogers, 1908.

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• El trabajo es hoy el poder más vital y potencial que este planeta haya conocido jamás, y su misión histórica de emancipar a los trabajadores del mundo de la esclavitud de los siglos es tan segura de su realización final como la puesta del sol.

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  Labour Movement, Realization, Organized Labor

  "An Ideal Labor Press". The Metal Worker, May 1904.

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• From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.

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  Feet, Crowns, Proud

  "The Day of the People" by Eugene V. Debs in "The Class Struggle", Volume III, No. 1 (February 1919); later quoted in "International Socialist Review", Volume 29, No. 2 (pp. 55-57), www.marxists.org. March/April 1968.

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• Cuando se producen grandes cambios en la historia, cuando están en juego grandes principios, por regla general la mayoría se equivoca.

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  Freedom, Democracies Have, Majority Rule

  Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 12 Sept. 1918 See Ibsen 16; Sydney Smith 14

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• No os preocupéis por la acusación de traición a vuestros amos, sino por la traición que os afecta a vosotros mismos. Sed fieles a vosotros mismos y no podréis ser traidores a ninguna buena causa en la tierra.

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  Truth, Worry, Earth

  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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• I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

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  Men, Community, Insanity

  "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.

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• The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

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  Work, Race, Savior

  "The Servant Problem" by Lewis Lapham, www.motherjones.com. April 4, 2011.

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• ¿Por qué repartir a los empleados del ferrocarril entre una veintena de organizaciones diferentes? Todos trabajan en el mismo servicio. Sus intereses son comunes. Deberían poder actuar juntos como uno solo. Pero se dividen según el oficio y la vocación, y si usted propusiera hoy unirlos para que pudieran realmente hacer algo para promover sus intereses colectivos e individuales como trabajadores, se encontraría con la oposición de todos los grandes dirigentes de estas organizaciones.

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  Organization, Together, Different

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• Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations in this struggle. I was made to see that in craft unionism the capitalist class have it within their power to keep the workers divided, to use one part of them to conquer and crush another part of them. Indeed, I was made to see that the old form of unionism separates the workers and keeps them helpless at the mercy of their masters.

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  Crush, Struggle, Long Ago

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• A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

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  Kindness, Men, Opinion

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• The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

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  People, Littles, Prison

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• Chicago es el producto del capitalismo moderno y, como otros grandes centros comerciales, no es apta para ser habitada.

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  Cities, Chicago, Modern

  "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.

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• En toda la historia del trabajo organizado, desde los primeros tiempos hasta el día de hoy, ningún cuerpo de trabajadores sindicalizados ha desempeñado un papel más humillante y degradante que aquel en el que los sindicatos ferroviarios aparecen en este mismo momento ante el pueblo estadounidense y el mundo.

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  People, Roles, World

  "You Railroad Men". Essay by Eugene V. Debs (February 3, 1906); published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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• If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

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  Hombres, Ciudades, Personas

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• The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

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  Personas, Quieren, Problema

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• A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

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  Prison, Crosses, Humans

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• One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent that they serve the economic and political purposes of the corporations, they are the foes – and not the friends – of the working class.

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  Class, Political, Doubt

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• The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

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  Wall, Character, Gun

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