When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks. - Eugene V. Debs

The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society — we are on the eve of universal change.

I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

An organization of intellectuals would not be officered and represented by wages earners; neither should an organization of wage earners be officered by intellectuals.