Mary Harris Jones Quotes
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I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
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I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
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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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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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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I would shout, 'Freedom for the working class!'
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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?
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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!
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Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
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What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
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I was born in revolution.