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The Brain has selected interesting
relevant
sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our
fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Just as Eugene Debs said, "While there is a soul in prison, I am not free" and Martin Luther King proclaimed that, "A threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," we must pledge to forge a new international solidarity based the spirit of the abolitionists and suffragists, the labor, peace, and civil rights movements, of modern feminism and environmentalism.
Lenin, Eugene Victor Debs, Rosa Luxembourg, Antonio Gramsci, CLR James - the leading thinkers of Twentieth Century socialism took Marx's great analysis of the way in which capitalism works and transformed its words into a formula for action, for struggle, for revolution.
From America came the ringing call to action of Haywood and Eugene Debs of the IWW, while from France was spreading an enthusiasm for the doctrines of the revolutionary Syndicalists with their faith in the industrial struggle and the general strike and their mistrust of politics.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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They are as much a part of an alien tradition--the right--as Eugene Debs is of another--the left.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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But Gandhi or Jane Addams or Eugene Debs could not have inspired multitudes to follow them fearlessly into controversy, conflict, and harm if those multitudes suspected that money and personal power were the purpose behind their leader’s passionate appeals.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Eugene Debs was given a ten-year sentence under the Espionage Act -- unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court-- for denouncing U.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Socialist Eugene Debs speaks during the 1904 presidential campaign Theodore Roosevelt 1912.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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A former locomotive fireman, Eugene Debs ran for president of the United States four times, the fourth time in 1920, when he was in prison.
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Craig Leveaux,
Blogger
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Eugene V Debs Speech at Girard, Kansas, 1908 Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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The two merging groups were the Social Democratic Party of Eugene Victor Debs and the "Kangaroo" wing of the older Socialist Labor Party.
Our tradition includes the Socialist party of Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas, and maybe sometime in the future, in coalition with our other allies, an alternative party will be initiated.
Born to politically active parents – and an avowedly Socialist mother who revered Eugene Debs – Vernon Smith’s early ideological indoctrination would prove pivotal to his attraction to the economic sciences.
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