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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

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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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Teacher
Trade Unionist
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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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I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery
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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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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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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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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 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'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
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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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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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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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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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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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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
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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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