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" I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. "
Mary Harris Jones
Scaffold
Sword
Pen
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" I will tell the truth wherever I please. "
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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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Said
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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 have always advised men to read. "
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Read
Always
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" God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. "
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Thieves
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" I was born in revolution. "
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Born
I Was Born
" 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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Hands
Down
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" My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. "
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Shoes
Me
Like
" You must stand for free speech in the streets. "
Mary Harris Jones
You
Free Speech
Free
" 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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California
Railroad
Farmers
" I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. "
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I Am
Leaders
Sell
" I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. "
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Believe
I Believe
Protection
" 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? "
Mary Harris Jones
Day
Night
Song
" Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. "
Mary Harris Jones
Miners
Lives
Death
" I abide where there is a fight against wrong. "
Mary Harris Jones
Abide
Fight
Against
" I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser. "
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Humanitarian
" Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. "
Mary Harris Jones
Dug
Coal
World
" What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union. "
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Powerful
Achieve
Against
" Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent. "
Mary Harris Jones
Men
Indifferent
Cold
" 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. "
Mary Harris Jones
Struggle
Better
Labor
" 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. "
Mary Harris Jones
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. "
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History
American
Character
" You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand. "
Mary Harris Jones
Witness
Know
Stand
" I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. "
Mary Harris Jones
Blind
Am
I Am
" What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow. "
Mary Harris Jones
American
Enough
Good
" I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia. "
Mary Harris Jones
Afraid
Militia
Press
" Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers. "
Mary Harris Jones
Today
White
Child
" I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class. "
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Class
Which
Bring
" And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone. "
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Child
Responsible
Slavery
" I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people. "
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Facts
Meetings
People