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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

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Mother Jones
Age: 100 †
Born: 1830
Born: May 1
Died: 1930
Died: November 30
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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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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
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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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The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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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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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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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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