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

A Sentiment on Social Reform

Debs, Eugene Victor

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.