86 Quotes by Mother Jones

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

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

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

Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor’s strong, rough hands.

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

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.

I have always advised men to read.

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