49 Quotes by Mary Harris Jones

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!

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

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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?