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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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
Trade Unionist
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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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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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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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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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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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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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 address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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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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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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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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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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I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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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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