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" You must stand for free speech in the streets. "

Mary Harris Jones

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

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

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

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" I abide where there is a fight against wrong. "

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

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

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

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" Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent. "

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" I will tell the truth wherever I please. "

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