Mary Harris Jones
Activist
1837-08-01
Quotes by Mary Harris Jones
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
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They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the hair torn out of their heads by the machinery, their scalps torn off, and yet not a single tear was shed, while the poodle dogs were loved and caressed and carried to the seashore.
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
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They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the hair torn out of their heads by the machinery, their scalps torn off, and yet not a single tear was shed, while the poodle dogs were loved and caressed and carried to the seashore.
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Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
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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.
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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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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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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.
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
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I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
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I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
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