Mother Jones Quotes

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• My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.

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  Labor Force, Together, Want

  Mother Jones (1988). “The speeches and writings of Mother Jones”

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• Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

  Mother Jones

  Fighting, Hell, Mourn

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• You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

  Mother Jones

  Fighting, Clothes, Age

  Jones (Mother), Philip Sheldon Foner (1983). “Mother Jones speaks: collected writings and speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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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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  Men, Shoes, Economic Inequality

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, edited by Mary Field Parton, (p. 46), 2004.

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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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  Economic Inequality, Slavery, Limits

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• Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

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  Education, Down And, Conflict

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

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  Children, Knowledge, Gun

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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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  Fighting, Shoes, United States

  "Ten Ways to Fight Trump" by David Helvarg, progressive.org. February 3, 2017.

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• No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!

  Mother Jones

  Fighting, Matter, No Matter What

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• I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser

  Mother Jones

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• Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination

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  Journey, Destination, Final Destination

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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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  Technology, Class, Want

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• I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor. Think of the thousands who are killed every year and there is no redress for it. We will fight until the mines are made secure and human life valued more than props. Look things in the face. Don't' fear a governor; don't fear anybody. You pay the governor; he has the right to protect you. You are the biggest part of the population in the state. You create its wealth, so I say, let the fight go on; if nobody else will keep on, I will.

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  Army, Fighting, Thinking

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• I will tell the truth wherever I please.

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  Telling The Truth, Please

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• I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

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  Country, Voice, Needs

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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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  Believe, Responsibility, Men

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• God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

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  Thieves, Gang, Almighty

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, Courier Corporation, (p. 125), April 30, 2012.

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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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  Girl, Boys, Hands

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• The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!

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  Earth, Meek, Militant

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• You must stand for free speech in the streets.

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  Speech, Free Speech, Streets

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• I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.

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  Grandmother, Long, Enough

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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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  Children, Cities, Profit

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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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  Children, Effort, Insane

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• Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

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  Heart, Men, White

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• Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!

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  Friday, Monday, Morning

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