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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.
Mother Jones
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Mother Jones
Age: 100 †
Born: 1830
Born: May 1
Died: 1930
Died: November 30
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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
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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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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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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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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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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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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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