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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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Mother Jones
Age: 100 †
Born: 1830
Born: May 1
Died: 1930
Died: November 30
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a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.
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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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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.
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I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
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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 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 will tell the truth wherever I please.
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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
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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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But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.
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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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My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.
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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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You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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