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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

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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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Teacher
Trade Unionist
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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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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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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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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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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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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