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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
Politician
Teacher
Trade Unionist
Union Organizer
Corcaigh
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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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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 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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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
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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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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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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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I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
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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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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people
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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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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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