"Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation."

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Source : "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

Eugene V. Debs

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“...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are 'silly' people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense.”
“We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.”
“Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.”
“As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot estimate the duration of what we see at present, nor calculate the period at which it had begun; so that, with respect to human observation, this world has neither a beginning nor an end.”
“A man lets you know who he is by how he treats others.”
“This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.”
“Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.”
“Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile asâ€¦the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.”

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