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Mary Harris Jones quotes

American Activist August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930

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Mary Harris Jones quote: "I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you..."
I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase. Mary Harris Jones
Mary Harris Jones quote: "Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of..."
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. Mary Harris Jones
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. Mary Harris Jones
Mary Harris Jones quote: "My address is like my shoes. It travels with me."
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. Mary Harris Jones
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. Mary Harris Jones
Mary Harris Jones quote: "What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought..."
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow. Mary Harris Jones
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. Mary Harris Jones
Mary Harris Jones quote: "God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves..."
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. Mary Harris Jones
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
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
Mary Harris Jones quote: "Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts."
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts. Mary Harris Jones
Mary Harris Jones quote: "Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination."
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination. Mary Harris Jones
Mary Harris Jones quote: "I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square..."
I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me. Mary Harris Jones
[Women need to realize that with] what they have in their hands there is no limit to what they could accomplish. The trouble is they let the capitalists make them believe they wouldn't be ladylike. Mary Harris Jones
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. Mary Harris Jones

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