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TIL a prison inmate, Eugene Debs, received nearly one million votes during the 1920 presidential election. He was serving 10 years for a speech he gave in Ohio.

via reddit.com

the speech was in opposition to the draft and world war one, and in favor of socialism—it got him convicted of sedition

“You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. You need to know that you were not created to work and produce and impoverish yourself to enrich an idle exploiter. You need to know that you have a mind to improve, a soul to develop, and a manhood to sustain.”