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Mary Harris Jones Quotes - IQDb - Internet Quotes Database

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I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.


I was born in revolution.


Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.


I abide where there is a fight against wrong.


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


I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.


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


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


I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.


I will tell the truth wherever I please.


I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.


You must stand for free speech in the streets.


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.


I have always advised men to read.


Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.


Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.


You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.


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.


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?


What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.