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I was born in revolution.
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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Mother Jones
Mary Harris
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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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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
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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 afraid of the press or the Militia.
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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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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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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You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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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 preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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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'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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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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I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people
Mother Jones
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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