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Sedition Debs' Tomahawk Tank
Full text of Debs' statement to the court for violating the Sedition Act (1918) is available here: [marxists.org]. The famous quote is the introduction:
"...years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. "
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EV Debs "Statement to the Court--Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act" Court Stenographer, 18 September 1918.