6 Eugene V. Debs Quotes on Freedom

Eugene V. Debs quotes on freedom

16. There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth. Human society has always consisted of masters and slaves, and the slaves have always been and are today, the foundation stones of the social fabric. Wage-labor is but a name; wage-slavery is the fact.

19. The political solidarity of the working class means the death of despotism, the birth of freedom, the sunrise of civilization.

29. The people are as capable of achieving their industrial freedom as they were to secure their political liberty, and both are necessary to a free nation.

33. With faith and hope and courage we hold our heads erect and with dauntless spirit marshal the working class for the march from Capitalism to Socialism, from Slavery to Freedom, from Barbarism to Civilization.

36. The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

53. In due time the hour will strike and this great cause triumphant - the greatest in history - will proclaim the emancipation of the working class and the brotherhood of all mankind.