Eugene V. Debs Quotes
When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.
Debs, Eugene V. "The Canton, Ohio Speech." Writings and Speeches of Eugene V. Debs, edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Hermitage Press, 1948, p. 433.
The Iroquois had a very successful confederacy of 6 tribes in a relatively democratic government with a written constitution. They dominated the Eastern part of North America for years. The were able to maintain a permanent unity with a unified and decentralized combination of government—much like the United States would become. At the time of this advice, each American colony was a government unto itself. The three Iroquois Indian delegates were Canassatego, Tachanoontia, and Gachradodow.
There were many who wanted even faster and more vigorous steps toward independence. Abigail Adams was one. John’s view was that such a large and diverse country could not act and reform suddenly. The nation was much smaller in population and area then but culturally quite diverse. Since then the same argument has been made in every generation.
See {640107} for another quotation creating this so called union. It made great sense to the King, but little to the Poles and Lithuanians who each saw themselves as a very different people and wanted little to so with the other.
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) ("Wobblies") and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States.
