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Quotes About Debs

Debs ran for president, in 1920, it would be from behind bars, as Convict No. 9653 in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
~ Arthur Herman
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
~ Nat Friedman
Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
~ A. Philip Randolph
Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist.
~ H.W. Brands
I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.
~ Eugene V. Debs
Debs especially feared the rise of the monolithic corporate state. He foresaw that corporations, unchecked, would expand to "continental proportions and swallow up the national resources and the means of production and distribution."51 If that happened, he warned, the long "night of capitalism will be dark.
~ Chris Hedges
the classroom, surrounded by the clatter of massed old-fashioned typewriters and the chatter of ex-debs whose main claim to distinction seemed to be the
~ Jane Hawking
Why, Dexter?" Debs repeated, and there was a dangerous edge to her voice that went far behind frustrated anger. "It's kind of complicated," I said, stalling in the hope that either a brilliant idea would occur to me or, if not, the house might be hit by lightning. "Make it simple," she snapped.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Well," I said, still waiting, "it all starts with Kraunauer." A good start: Debs nodded. "Okay," she said.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I went. I was not really awake yet, and still suffering from psychological whiplash from my treatment at the hands of Rita and Debs, but I went.
~ Jeff Lindsay
You can't—fuck—lawyer—shit!" Chapin said. Possibly it was some kind of verbal shorthand used by cannibals, but it made no apparent impression on Debs. She simply pushed him forward and, as I hurried over to join her, she gave me a look that was as close to happy as I had seen from her in quite some time.
~ Jeff Lindsay
What we provide is an atmosphere... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell.
~ Unknown