American - Activist | August 1, 1837 - November 30, 1930
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
Mary Harris Jones
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That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.
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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!
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What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
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I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
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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.
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Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
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My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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I have always advised men to read.
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And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
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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.
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I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
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