Mary Harris Jones Quotes

• I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

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• I am Mother Jones. The Government can’t take my life and you can’t take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

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• And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

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

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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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• I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

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• You must stand for free speech in the streets.

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• I’m not a humanitarian. I’m a hell-raiser.

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

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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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• In spite of oppressors, in spite of false leaders, in spite of labor’s own lack of understanding of its needs, the cause of the worker continues onward. Slowly his hours are shortened, giving him leisure to read and to think. Slowly his standard of living rises to include some of the good and beautiful things of the world. Slowly the cause of his children becomes the cause of all. His boy is taken from the breaker, his girl from the mill. Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor’s strong, rough hands.

  Mary Harris Jones

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  Tags in Reform, Labor

• 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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• If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

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• That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.

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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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• 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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• My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

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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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Mary Harris Jones (47)

Birth:	1st August, 1830
Death:	30th November, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Teacher

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