I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Labor activist and Socialist Party politician Eugene V. Debs, on his sentencing for sedition, for speaking out against the United States’ involvement in World War I.
I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Labor activist and Socialist Party politician Eugene V. Debs, on his sentencing for sedition, for speaking out against the United States’ involvement in World War I.
Unspoken Politics 