And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
Mary Harris Jones
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
Mary Harris Jones
I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
Mary Harris Jones
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
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
Mary Harris Jones
I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
Mary Harris Jones
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
Mary Harris Jones
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
Mary Harris Jones
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.
Mary Harris Jones
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
Mary Harris Jones
I have always advised men to read.
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
I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
Mary Harris Jones
I was born in revolution.
Mary Harris Jones
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
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mary Harris Jones
I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.
Mary Harris Jones
I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.
Mary Harris Jones
I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
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
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