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

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

   

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

   

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

   

I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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