“The workers are the saviors of society; the redeemers of the race; and when they have fulfilled their great historic mission, men and women ca walk the highlands and enjoy the vision of a land without masters and without slaves, a land regenerated and resplendent in the triumph of freedom and civilization.”

— Eugene V. Debs

"Industrial Unionism" (1905), Eugene Debs Speaks

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American labor and political leader 1855–1926

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