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I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mother Jones
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Mother Jones
Age: 100 †
Born: 1830
Born: May 1
Died: 1930
Died: November 30
Human Rights Activist
Politician
Teacher
Trade Unionist
Union Organizer
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Mother Jones
Mary Harris
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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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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
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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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All the average human being asks is something he can call a home a family that is fed and warm and now and then a little happiness once in a long while an extravagance.
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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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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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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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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
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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
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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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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Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people
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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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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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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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