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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.
Mother Jones
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Mother Jones
Age: 100 †
Born: 1830
Born: May 1
Died: 1930
Died: November 30
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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 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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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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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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You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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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'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
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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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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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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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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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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads
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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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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
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I was born in revolution.
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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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