“You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.” WorldTogetherPoliticalPoliticsHoursPartyLaborVoteUnionsStrikesPolitical PartiesLabor UnionWorld Is Yours Author:Eugene V. Debs
“They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.” PeopleWorldBelieveWarAgeNationsPeaceVoiceMilitaryTaughtStrangeDutyCommandPatrioticAntiwarWorld HistoryNo WarDeclaringDeclaring War Author:Eugene V. Debs
“Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage... I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves.” IfsWorldMindLongFreedomLibertyWorkersIf I CouldBondageMosesBack AgainMake Up Your Mind Author:Eugene V. Debs
“Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.” IfsMenWorldWantWarWould BeFacesFightingSpeakSidesDemocracyHe ManSafeRedClaimsVictimBeing TrueTyrantsAntiwarSolitaryPatriotMurdererFace To FacePretenseSpeak The TruthTraitorRobbersArchesAristocraticHumbugConspirators Author:Eugene V. Debs
“In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.” PeopleWorldBodyHoursRolesLaborUnionsOrganizedPresent DayHumiliatingRailwayOrganized Labor Author:Eugene V. Debs
“I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the irregular army of the people. I refuse to obey any command to fight from the ruling class, but I will not wait to be commanded to fight for the working class. I am opposed to every war but one; I am for that war with heart and soul, and that is the world-wide war of social revolution. In that war I am prepared to fight in any way the ruling class may make necessary, even to the barricades.” PeopleWorldWayHeartMayWarSoulFightingSocialWaitingClassRevolutionArmyPreparedSoldierRefuseWideCommandCapitalistWorking ClassRulingHeart And SoulSocial RevolutionPlutocracyBarricades Author:Eugene V. Debs
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.” WorldCountryEarthFightingCitizensPatriotismNationalismCitizenshipWorld CitizenPatriotism And NationalismCountries Of The WorldEnvironmental Stewardship Author:Eugene V. Debs
