American - Activist | August 1, 1837 - November 30, 1930
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
Mary Harris Jones
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
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I was born in revolution.
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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
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Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
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I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.
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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
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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 the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.
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The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.
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I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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