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. |