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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
Human Rights Activist
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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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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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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 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 want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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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 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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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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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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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 believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
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The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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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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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
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