86 Quotes by Mother Jones

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

-Mother Jones

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    I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

-Mother Jones

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

-Mother Jones

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

-Mother Jones

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

-Mother Jones

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

-Mother Jones

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    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

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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

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

-Mother Jones

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

-Mother Jones

 

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