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The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
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 believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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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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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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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 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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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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