Quotes from Mary Harris Jones

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

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

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

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

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

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