The very moment a workingman begins to do his own thinking he understands the paramount issue, parts company with the capitalist politician and falls… - Eugene V. Debs

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.

Go out into the field and bring in the rest of the workers, that they may be fully equipped for their great mission. We will wrest what we can, step by step, from the capitalists, but with out eye fixed upon the goal; we will press forward, keeping step together with the inspiring music of the new emancipation; and when we have enough of this kind of organization, as Brother DeLeon said so happily the other day, when we are lined up in battle array and the capitalists try to lock us out, we will turn the tables on the gentlemen and lock them out. We can run the mills without them but they cannot run them without us.

There is no inspiration in evil and no power except for its own destruction.