Anti-War Speech that Earned 10 Years in Prison for Eugene Debs


	Anti-War Speech that Earned 10 Years in Prison for Eugene Debs

sohil

7-4-2007 11:40 AM

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socialism, anti war, war, congress, jail, speech, amazing, ohio, genius, wall street

sohil says:

This clip doesn't do justice to the speech. Please go the source and read the entire speech (or at least the anti-war portions)

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0919e8d4-2d76-4f52-93fa-54365cd13520/EE5D1081-691C-4914-B8C9-B20F8C669703/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/debs-speech.htm" href="http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/debs-speech.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thememoryhole.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/debs-speech.htm"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Wars 
        throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. In the Middle 
        Ages when the feudal lords who inhabited the castles whose towers may 
        still be seen along the Rhine concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase 
        their power, their prestige and their wealth they declared war upon one 
        another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern 
        feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street go to war.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/debs-speech.htm"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">They 
        have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic 
        duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. 
        But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a 
        voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by 
        any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/debs-speech.htm">You 
        need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better 
        than slavery and cannon fodder. You need to know that you were not created 
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