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" Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts. "
Mary Harris Jones
Yourself
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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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" God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. "
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