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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.
Mother Jones
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Mother Jones
Age: 100 †
Born: 1830
Born: May 1
Died: 1930
Died: November 30
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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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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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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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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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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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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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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
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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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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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