American - Activist | August 1, 1837 - November 30, 1930
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.
Mary Harris Jones
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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
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Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
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Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.
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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!
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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.
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Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
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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.
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