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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
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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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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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Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
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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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I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.
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
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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
Mother Jones
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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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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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
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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'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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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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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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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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Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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