Eugene Victor Debs

Eugene Victor Debs (1855 - 1926), also Eugene V Debs is short, was a US socialist, political activist, and trade unionist. He was one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. He was five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers is unfit for human habitation.

- 1908, quoted in Kevin Tierney, Darrow

• I am for socialism because I am for humanity.

- speech, January 1, 1897

Margaret W Hungerford