84 Quotes by Eugene V. Debs

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

A privately owned world can never be a free world and a society based upon warring classes cannot stand.

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act in harmony together. Craft unionism is the negation of solidarity. The more unions you have, the less unity.

When I rise it will be with the ranks and not from the ranks.

Privately owned industry and production for individual profit are no longer compatible with social progress and have ceased to work out to humane and civilized ends.

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.