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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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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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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
Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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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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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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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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.
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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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The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
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I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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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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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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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
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I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
Mother Jones
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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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I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.
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