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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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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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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 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'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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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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I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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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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Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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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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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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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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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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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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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 movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
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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?
Mother Jones
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
Mother Jones
