Eugene Debs on War and Treason


	Eugene Debs on War and Treason

ouyangwulong

5-31-2007 1:40 AM

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eugene debs, free speech, anti-war, war

ouyangwulong says:

As I've always said, those who forget history are condemned to have to look it up on the internet...

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5-31-2007 10:39 AM

sl0wdjin

Kurt Vonnegut spoke of Debs often and quoted him often.

Very nice clip.

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        now for all of us to do our duty! The clarion call is ringing in our ears 
        and we cannot falter without being convicted of treason to ourselves and 
        to our great cause. </FONT></P></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"><P align="left"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Do not 
        worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about 
        the treason that involves yourselves. </FONT><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Be 
        true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.</FONT></P></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="2" face="Courier New, Courier, mono">&gt;&gt;&gt; 
        Prominent labor organizer and political activist <A href="http://www.eugenevdebs.com/" linkindex="1" set="yes">Eugene 
        Debs</A> delivered a speech at a Socialist Party convention in Canton, 
        Ohio, on 16 June 1918. Because of it, he was prosecuted under the Sedition 
        Act for interfering with the draft, leading to a 10-year prison sentence 
        and the stripping of his US citizenship. (He ended up serving 2 years 
        and 8 months in the slammer; President Warren G. Harding commuted his 
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        ticket five times, with the last time occurring while he was in prison. 
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