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" I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. "
Mary Harris Jones
Believe
I Believe
Protection
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" 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. "
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" Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers. "
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" Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts. "
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" I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people. "
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" Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. "
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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'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser. "
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" Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. "
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" And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone. "
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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'm not afraid of the press or the Militia. "
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" Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent. "
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" God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. "
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" I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. "
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" 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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" I will tell the truth wherever I please. "
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Please
Truth
Wherever
" You must stand for free speech in the streets. "
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You
Free Speech
Free
" My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. "
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Shoes
Me
Like
" 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
" 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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" 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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Enough
Good
" 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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" 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? "
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Day
Night
Song
" I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. "
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Scaffold
Sword
Pen
" I was born in revolution. "
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" Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination. "
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" I have always advised men to read. "
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" 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. "
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