Mary Harris Jones Quotes

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.

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

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?

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

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.

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.