7 Eugene V. Debs Quotes on History

Eugene V. Debs quotes on history

4. The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

14. The African is here and to stay. How came he to our shores? Ask your grandfathers, Mr. Anonymous, and if they will tell the truth you will or should blush for the crimes.

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.

26. Civilization has done little for labor except to modify the forms of its exploitation.

46. The Man of Galilee, the Carpenter, the workingman who became the revolutionary agitator of his day soon found himself to be an undesirable citizen in the eyes of the ruling knaves and they had him crucified.

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.

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