Activist Quotes

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

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.

I was born in revolution.

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

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.

I have always advised men to read.

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

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

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

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

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

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

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

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

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.

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.

I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't.

I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.