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.
Eugene V. DebsThe protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.
Eugene V. DebsThe master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
Eugene V. DebsOne 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.
Eugene V. Debs