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Debs, Eugene Victor
Born: 1855 AD
Died: 1926 AD, at 71 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
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Died: 1926 AD, at 71 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
US labor leader and socialist politician
helped found American Railway Union (ARU) 1893
led Pullman strike 1894
with Victor Berger, co-founded Social Democratic Party of America 1897
Socialist presidential candidate 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920
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- "The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million."
- "I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."
- "When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right."
- "If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation."
