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I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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 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 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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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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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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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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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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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 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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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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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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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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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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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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I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people
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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 will tell the truth wherever I please.
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