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" And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone. "
Child
Responsible
Slavery
" God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. "
Made
Thieves
Gang
" I abide where there is a fight against wrong. "
Abide
Fight
Against
" I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase. "
I Am
Life
Mother
" I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. "
Scaffold
Sword
Pen
" I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class. "
Class
Which
Bring
" I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. "
Blind
Am
I Am
" I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. "
I Am
Leaders
Sell
" 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. "
Man
Said
Railroad
" I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. "
Believe
I Believe
Protection
" I have always advised men to read. "
Read
Always
Advised
" I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia. "
Afraid
Militia
Press
" I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser. "
Humanitarian
" 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? "
Day
Night
Song
" 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. "
Men
Back
Clothes
" I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people. "
Facts
Meetings
People
" I was born in revolution. "
Revolution
Born
I Was Born
" 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. "
California
Railroad
Farmers
" I will tell the truth wherever I please. "
Please
Truth
Wherever
" I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me. "
Square
He
God
" Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. "
Miners
Lives
Death
" 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. "
Hands
Down
Little Girls
" Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent. "
Men
Indifferent
Cold
" My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. "
Shoes
Me
Like
" Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. "
Dug
Coal
World
" Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation. "
Struggle
Better
Labor
" Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination. "
Destination
Journey
Education
" Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts. "
Yourself
Coming
Down
" 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. "
Look
Me
Silent
" The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. "
History
American
Character
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