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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.
Mother Jones
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Mother Jones
Age: 100 †
Born: 1830
Born: May 1
Died: 1930
Died: November 30
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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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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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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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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
Mother Jones
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
Mother Jones
Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
Mother Jones
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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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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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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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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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
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The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
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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.
Mother Jones
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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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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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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