"I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets."
— Sycophancy

January 1, 1970

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Eugene V. Debs, speech in Canton, Ohio, 1918, in: Neil A. Hamilton Rebels and Renegades: A Chronology of Social and Political Dissent in the United States, Taylor & Francis, 2002, p. 333.