How we cite our quotes: (Sentence)
Quote #4
[…] there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age […] (14)
When Debs talks about "our" people his audience knows that he's speaking to them as one whose biography connects directly to this idea.
Quote #5
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars […] (17)
Debs often used John D. Rockefeller as his example of the crazy-rich guy. Capitalist proponents would view the Rockefeller type as being very useful indeed, however.