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" 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. "

Mary Harris Jones

California

Railroad

Farmers

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" I have always advised men to read. "

" And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone. "

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" Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. "

" Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers. "

" What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union. "

" 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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" 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'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser. "

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Humanitarian

" I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. "

" 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. "

" I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class. "

" I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. "

Mary Harris Jones

Blind

I Am

" Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. "

" 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? "

" Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts. "

" You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand. "

" What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow. "

" I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. "

" I will tell the truth wherever I please. "

" I was born in revolution. "