Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.
Eugene V. DebsYou need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
Eugene V. DebsIt is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.
Eugene V. DebsWhy should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.
Eugene V. Debs