A Sentiment on Social Reform by Eugene V. Debs. Upton Sinclair, ed. 1915. The Cry for Justice

Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.

A Sentiment on Social Reform

By Eugene V. Debs

(American locomotive engineer; born 1855; president of his union, and later the best known of American Socialist lecturers)


WHILE there is a lower class, I am in it.
While there is a criminal element, I am of it.
While there is a soul in jail, I am not free.