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“ ”I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition; as it is now the capitalists use your heads and your hands.
About Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Victor Debs (5 November 1855 – 20 October 1926) was an American labor and political leader and five-time Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States.
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Additional quotes by Eugene V. Debs
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
A privately owned world can never be a free world and a society based upon warring classes cannot stand.
I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else would lead you out.