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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
Mother Jones
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Mother Jones
Age: 100 †
Born: 1830
Born: May 1
Died: 1930
Died: November 30
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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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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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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
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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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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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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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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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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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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 was born in revolution.
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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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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 am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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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
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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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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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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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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.
Mother Jones
