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Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
Mother Jones
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Mother Jones
Age: 100 †
Born: 1830
Born: May 1
Died: 1930
Died: November 30
Human Rights Activist
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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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.
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I was born in revolution.
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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
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You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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