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Quotes from Mother 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.
~ Mother 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.
~ Mother Jones
I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me
~ Mother Jones
All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.
~ Mother Jones
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.
~ Mother Jones
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
~ Mother Jones
My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
~ Mother Jones
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
~ Mother Jones
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
~ Mother Jones
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.
~ Mother 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.
~ Mother Jones
I have always advised men to read
~ Mother Jones
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
~ Mother Jones
Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
~ Mother 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
~ Mother Jones
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
~ Mother Jones
...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.
~ Mother Jones
We must stand together if we don't there will be no victory for any one of us.
~ Mother Jones
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
~ Mother Jones
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination
~ Mother Jones
Freedom for the working class!
~ Mother Jones
Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
~ Mother Jones
I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!
~ Mother Jones
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
~ Mother Jones