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" I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia. "
Mary Harris Jones
Afraid
Militia
Press
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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 would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me. "
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" I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser. "
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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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" I will tell the truth wherever I please. "
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" Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts. "
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" I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. "
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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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" I have always advised men to read. "
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" 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. "
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" You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand. "
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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. "
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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 was born in revolution. "
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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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Achieve
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" Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. "
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" I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class. "
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Class
Which
Bring
" I abide where there is a fight against wrong. "
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Abide
Fight
Against
" You must stand for free speech in the streets. "
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You
Free Speech
Free
" I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. "
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I Am
Leaders
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" 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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" And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone. "
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Child
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Slavery
" Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent. "
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Men
Indifferent
Cold
" Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers. "
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Today
White
Child
" God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. "
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Made
Thieves
Gang
" 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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Man
Said
Railroad
" Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination. "
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Destination
Journey
Education
" 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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" 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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Night
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