31 Quotes About Miners

I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a union meeting. I have some things to say today that God would not want to hear in His own house. Boys, I want you to get up, every one of you, and go across the road. I want you to sit down on the hillside over there and wait for me to speak to you.

Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing our democracy. They wrote the Constitution and added a Bill of Rights that intended for people of all classes to enjoy the freedoms the Constitution offers. But capitalism came along without a constitution or a bill of rights and the industrialists grabbed unrestricted power. The capitalists wrote their own ‘Declaration of Capitalism’.” — Mother Jones

A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And ‘to be remembered, to be respected’ is a good sunshine; ‘safety in the mine’ is a good sunshine!

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?

The darkness of the mine, the darkness of my mind: the two became one and indivisible. I did not sleep, however. Of that I'm sure. In the stillness, my consciousness became highly attenuated, that's all. But even this attenuated consciousness was one part real world in ten parts water. As diluted as I became, it never quite disappeared.

На картине Антона мужик с грубыми руками и жесткими чертами лица застыл в проеме выработки... Мужчина смотрит вдаль, словно пытаясь найти выход, но дальше, чем простирается свет лампы, уйти не может. А вот автобус на шахтной площадке — из него выходят шахтеры в грязных робах с безразличными усталыми лицами... а сбоку пятилетний мальчик с мячом в руках внимательно рассматривает мужчин, будто наблюдая за своим будущим.

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargoCongealed in the dark arteries,Old veinsThat hold Glamorgan's blood.The midnight miner in the secret seams,Limb, life, and bread.- Rhondda Valley

Working in the tea fields under a beautiful sunshine is the dream of all the miners.

Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!