Mother Jones Quotes

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• You must stand for free speech in the streets.
• Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
• I will tell the truth wherever I please.
• And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
• 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…
• I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
• I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
• I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
• You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
• 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…
• I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me
• 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…
• 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…
• Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
• I have always advised men to read
• 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…
• I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people
• Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination
• Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold…
• Freedom for the working class!

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