"Eugene Debs is a good American citizen as well as a good Socialist, and a man beloved by all who know him. To punish such a social servant for standing by his principles is a historic mistake — the world has made many such."
— Eugene V. Debs

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in Ruth Le Prade (ed.), Debs and the Poets (1920). Also quoted in Justin Wintle and Richard Kenin, The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation of British and American subjects. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.