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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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Corcaigh
Mother Jones
Mary Harris
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More quotes by Mother Jones
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!
Mother Jones
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'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
Mother Jones
You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
Mother Jones
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
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.
Mother Jones
I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
Mother Jones
My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
Mother Jones
And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
Mother Jones
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.
Mother Jones
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
Mother Jones
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
Mother Jones
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
Mother Jones
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.
Mother Jones
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
Mother Jones
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
I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people
Mother Jones
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
Mother Jones
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.
Mother Jones
Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
Mother Jones