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I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
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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I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
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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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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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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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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
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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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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 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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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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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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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 am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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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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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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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
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