Eugene Debs
Eugene Debs
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debswas an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States...
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth5 November 1855
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Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.
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Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
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The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.
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When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. we will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.
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The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.