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But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.

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Mother Jones
Age: 100 †
Born: 1830
Born: May 1
Died: 1930
Died: November 30
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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 know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery
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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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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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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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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.
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
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You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
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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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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
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Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
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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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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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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 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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