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Eugene V. Debs
Title: Eugene V. Debs
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2825 | Pages: 12.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Eugene V. Debs
Congress must not interfere with freedom of religion, speech or press, assembly, and petition. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
This is the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. It is …showed first 75 words of 2825 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2825 total…Debs..., 1). In being imprisoned from April 1919 to December 1921, Debs was elevated from being a nationally-known radical labor and Socialist agitator to a martyr for democracy (Constantine '...An American paradox,' 33).
On October 15, 1926, Eugene Victor Debs died of a massive heart attack at Chicago's Lindlahr Sanitarium (DeBenedetti, 80). He died a guilty man, never pardoned for his crimes. He died guilty man, guilty of speaking his thoughts. He died a martyr, guilty only, of following the First Amendment.
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