Best Mother Jones Quotes
- 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… Asked
- Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. All
- God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. Almighty
- Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers. Child
- I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden… California
- 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! Altar
- 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… Accept
- Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time. Boils
- If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! Class
- My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. Abide
- I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. Afraid
- I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But… Betray
- I preferred sewing to bossing little children. Bossing
- That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute. Care
- Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. Dead
- My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing. Diamond
- The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win. Always Win
- 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… All
- I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the… Bear
- Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike. Fight