49 Quotes by Mary Harris Jones

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.

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

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.

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

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

I was born in revolution.

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

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