Eugene V. Debs

“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

“I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are.”

“The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.”

“The strike is the weapon of the oppressed.”

“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”

“I would rather be a free man in my grave than a contented slave.”

“Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.”

“I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is sacred and inviolable.”

“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.”

“Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. That is the ruling class's game.”

“The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.”

“They may put me in jail, but they cannot give me a guilty conscience.”