“There is nothing that helps the Socialist Party so much as receiving an occasional deathblow. The oftener it is killed the more active, the more energetic, the more powerful it becomes.”

—  Eugene V. Debs

The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)

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