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Eugene Victor Debs

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born

November 05, 1855 in Terre Haute, Indiana, The United States

died

October 20, 1926

gender

male

website

http://www.eugenevdebs.com/

genre

Politics, Labor, Ethics

influences

Jesus, Victor Hugo, Eugene Sue, Karl Marx

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Eugene Victor Debs was an American union leader, a founding member of the International Labor Union & the Industrial Workers of the World, as well as candidate for President as a member of the Social Democratic Party in 1900. He was presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, 1908, 1912 & 1920. Thru his candidacies & work with labor movements, he became one of the best-known socialists in the world.
Debs initially was a Democrat. He was elected to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884. After working with smaller unions like the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, he was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union, the nation's 1st industrial union. As a ARU member, he was imprisoned in 1894 whe...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 33 ratings · 2 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Eugene V. Debs Speaks 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Gentle Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs by Eugene Victor Debs, J. Robert Constantine 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Walls and Bars: Prisons and Prison Life in the Land of the Free by Eugene Victor Debs, David Dellinger (introduction) 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1927 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle by Eugene Victor Debs, William A. Pelz 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Writings of Eugene V. Debs 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Labor and Freedom 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1916 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Letters of Eugene V. Debs: 3 Volume Set by Eugene Victor Debs, J. Robert Constantine (editor), J Constantine 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Political Appeal to American Workers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Unionism and Socialism 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world. ”
― Eugene Victor Debs

tags: anti-militarism , anti-nationalism , compassion , humanity , universal-love

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“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
― Eugene Victor Debs

tags: aristocracy , capitalism , feudalism , inequality , justice , labor , poverty , wealth

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“Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that 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.”
― Eugene Victor Debs

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