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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 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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Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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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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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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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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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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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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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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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 believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
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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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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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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 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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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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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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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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The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
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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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I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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