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Mary Harris Jones
August 1, 1837 - November 30, 1930
Nationality: American
Category: Activist
Subcategory: American Activist

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

   

I was born in revolution.

   

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

   

I have always advised men to read.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

   

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?

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

   

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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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