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.
Eugene V. DebsWhile there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene V. DebsChicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
Eugene V. DebsI'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.
Eugene V. DebsThey 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.
Eugene V. Debs