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All is love. . . All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

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Eugene V. Debs

They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. . . . Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. . . And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

Declared, Democratic, Freedom, Plunder, Self, War
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The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

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The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.

Battle, Class, Fought, Lose, Master, War

The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.

Arise, Class, Party, Principles, Struggle

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

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The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Class, Control, Government, Power, Scale, Scales
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