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I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people
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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Teacher
Trade Unionist
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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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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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Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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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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The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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I was born in revolution.
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I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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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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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
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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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Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation
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