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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
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Mother Jones
Mary Harris
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More quotes by Mother Jones
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?
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
My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
Mother Jones
Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
Mother Jones
Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
Mother Jones
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mother Jones
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
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
You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
Mother Jones
And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
Mother Jones
I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people
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
Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
Mother Jones
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
Mother Jones
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
Mother Jones
I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
Mother Jones
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
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
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
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
Mother Jones