American - Activist | August 1, 1837 - November 30, 1930
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
Mary Harris Jones
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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.
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You must stand for free speech in the streets.
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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?
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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.
FightWhateverYourLadylike
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 wrongs that others do.
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I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
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I will tell the truth wherever I please.
TruthWillTellWhereverPlease
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