Top 25 Mother Jones Quotes
#1. I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.
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#2. The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
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#3. My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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#4. My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.
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#5. But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.
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#6. A TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.
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#7. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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#8. I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!
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#9. The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.
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#11. I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery
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#12. If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
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#13. Poetic injustice ... having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ... are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.
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#14. Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
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#15. I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
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#16. That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.
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#17. The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
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#18. All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.
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#20. Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
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#21. You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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#22. Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
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#23. I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
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#25. I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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