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American - Activist August 1, 1837 - November 30, 1930

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.

Mary Harris Jones

Hands Little Girls Down Up And Down

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

Mary Harris Jones

Life Death Out Miners

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

Mary Harris Jones

Children Sewing Little Children

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

Mary Harris Jones

Education Journey Destination Like

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

Mary Harris Jones

Fight Hell Dead Living

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

Mary Harris Jones

Time Men Hot White

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

Mary Harris Jones

Fight Your Whatever Ladylike

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

Mary Harris Jones

Day City Child Will

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

Mary Harris Jones

End Win Constitution Lost

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

Work Struggle Better Own

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Mary Harris Jones
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

Mary Harris Jones

I Am Pen Sword Afraid

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

Mary Harris Jones

I Am Play False Out

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

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

Man Shoes Prison Said

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

Mary Harris Jones

Me Shoes Like Address

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

Mary Harris Jones

Freedom I Am Will Class

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

Work Day Song Children

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Mary Harris Jones

Truth I Am Pen Will

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

History Character American Peaceful

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

Alone Powerful Achieve Against

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!

Mary Harris Jones

You Vote Hell Never

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

Mary Harris Jones

Alone Man Believe Leader

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

Mary Harris Jones

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Mary Harris Jones

Fight Wrong Against Where

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

Mary Harris Jones

Women God Gang Thieves

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

Mary Harris Jones

Good Man Enough Follow

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