Top 37 Mary Harris Jones Quotes

#1. I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.

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#2. I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.

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#3. I was born in revolution.

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#4. Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

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#5. I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

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#6. I have always advised men to read.

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#7. Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.

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#8. I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

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#9. What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

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#10. No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

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#11. Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

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#12. I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

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#13. A lady is the last thing on earth I want to be. Capitalists sidetrack the women into clubs and make ladies of them.

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#14. And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

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#15. Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

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#16. My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

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#17. I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

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#18. I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

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#19. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

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#20. I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

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#21. In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

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#22. The first thing is to raise hell," says I. "That's always the first thing to do when you're faced with an injustice and you feel powerless. That's what I do in my fight for the working class.

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#23. Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

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#24. I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.

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#25. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

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#26. You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.

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#27. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

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#28. What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

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#29. Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

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#30. I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

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#31. Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

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#32. Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

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#33. Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

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#34. You must stand for free speech in the streets.

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#35. I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

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#36. I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

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#37. The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.

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