“All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like
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“Let me tell you, Mr. teacher when you say you'll make me right, in five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white”
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“patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
― Works of Eugene Victor Debs
― Works of Eugene Victor Debs

“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.”
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Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.”
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“The greedy, profit-seeking exploiter cannot see beyond the end of his nose. He can see a chance for an “opening”; he is cunning enough to know what graft is and where it is, and how it can be secured, but vision he has none-not the slightest. He knows nothing of the great throbbing world that spreads out in all directions. He has no capacity for literature; no appreciation of art; no soul for beauty. That is the penalty the parasites pay for the violation of the laws of life.”
― Works of Eugene Victor Debs
― Works of Eugene Victor Debs

for readers who enjoy the unusual works of authors such as Flannery O'Connor, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Tennessee Williams - discuss your favorite ...more

Readers and authors discuss & share recommendations of Gothic Literature, both current & classic. ...more
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