Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. Eugene Debs
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. Eugene Debs
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. Eugene Debs
While 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 Debs
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. Eugene Debs
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. Eugene Debs
The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million. Eugene Debs
I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination. Eugene 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. Eugene Debs
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation. Eugene Debs
I’d rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don’t want, and get it. Eugene Debs