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Eugene Victor Debs

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“I am opposed to a nation carrying the weapons of murder about it as well as an individual. I am resolutely opposed to the whole damned infernal arming business and the whole diabolical program of human butchery. To hell with war and to hell with the system that breeds war and with the government that prepares for war. Like you I yearn to see one nation have the moral courage, the common decency to be a coward nation, the first nation in history too cowardly to commit murder and to thrive in the fruit of murder.”

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Speaking to the court, 1918: "...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."

My Blog

Outlook for Socialism in the United States, 1900

International Socialist Review, September, 1900. The sun of the passing century is setting upon scenes of extraordinary activity in almost every part of our capitalistic old planet. Wars and rumors of...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:39:00 GMT

What's the Matter with Chicago? 1902

Chicago Socialist, October 25, 1902 For some days William E. Curtis, the far-famed correspondent of the Chicago Record-Herald, has been pressing th above inquiry upon representative people of all clas...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:38:00 GMT

How I Became A Socialist, 1902

New York Comrade, April, 1902 As I have some doubt about the readers of The Comrade having any curiosity as to how I became a Socialist it may be in order to say that the subject is the editors, not m...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:37:00 GMT

The American Movement, 1898

The twentieth century, according to the prophecy of Victor Hugo, is to be the century of humanity. In all the procession of centuries gone, not one was for humanity. From the very first tyranny has fl...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:35:00 GMT

Agitation and Agitators

Agitation and Agitators. by Eugene V. Debs Unsigned article attributed to Debs, published in Locomotive Firemens Magazine (Terre Haute, IN), v. 14, no. 8 (A ugust 1890), pp. 712-713. Agitation is the...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:33:00 GMT

Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act, Sept. 18, 1918

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 l...
Posted by on Tue, 30 May 2006 03:41:00 GMT

The Canton, Ohio Anti-War Speech

June 16, 1918 Comrades, friends and fellow-workers, for this very cordial greeting, this very hearty reception, I thank you all with the fullest appreciation of your interest in and your devotion to t...
Posted by on Tue, 30 May 2006 03:38:00 GMT