Eugene V. Debs Quotes

The fight for the liberation of the working class from its present position, which is beneath a free people, is not a fight for new class privileges and prerogatives but for equal rights and equal obligations for all and for the abolition of class rule

Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.

The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Revolution against imperialism is not an action of inviting guests to have meal, writing articles, braiding, education, softness or fear of enemy. But it is a class wrath seized to topple another class

Fellow Peasants: No hand will after this day be above your hand… You are the producers. Yours is the power.

We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth

For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining path, a sun of hope and certainty that never sets, a sun that is always at its zenith.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

An oppressed people will always rise.

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.

A political movement is that in which the proletarians as a class exert pressure against the ruling classes.