Mary Harris Jones Quotes
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I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.
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Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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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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I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
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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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I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.
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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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Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.
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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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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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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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Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
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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 abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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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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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.
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I have always advised men to read.
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
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You must stand for free speech in the streets.
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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.