Mary Harris Jones Quotes

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?

Mary Harris Jones

• Work
• Children
• Song

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.

Mary Harris Jones

• California

I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.

Mary Harris Jones

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I would shout, 'Freedom for the working class!'

Mary Harris Jones

• Freedom

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.

Mary Harris Jones

• People
• Country
• American

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

Mary Harris Jones

• People

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

Mary Harris Jones

• Alone
• Powerful

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.

Mary Harris Jones

• Truth

Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!

Mary Harris Jones

• Fighting
• Organization

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

Mary Harris Jones

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

Mary Harris Jones

• Men
• Cold

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

Mary Harris Jones

• Life
• Death

I was born in revolution.

Mary Harris Jones

• Revolution