All Mary Harris Jones Quotes
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.
Mary Harris Jones
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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 believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
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I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.
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Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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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 am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
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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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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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I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
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