Mary Harris Jones Quotes

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
Mary Harris Jones

Women, God, Made

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.
Mary Harris Jones

Him, Said, Once

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
Mary Harris Jones

Education, Journey

You must stand for free speech in the streets.
Mary Harris Jones

Free, Stand, Speech

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
Mary Harris Jones

Play, Betray, Leaders

I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.
Mary Harris Jones

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
Mary Harris Jones

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
Mary Harris Jones

Protection, Flag, Movements

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
Mary Harris Jones

Yourself, Down, Read

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
Mary Harris Jones

Everyone, Child, Slavery

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
Mary Harris Jones

Fight, Wrong, Against

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
Mary Harris Jones

Life, Government, Mother

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
Mary Harris Jones

Afraid, Sword, Pen

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
Mary Harris Jones

Freedom, Bring, Class

I have always advised men to read.
Mary Harris Jones

Men, Read, Advised

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.
Mary Harris Jones

Men, Children, Dead

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
Mary Harris Jones

Country, Before, American

I was born in revolution.
Mary Harris Jones

Revolution, Born

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.
Mary Harris Jones

Took, Golden, West

I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mary Harris Jones

Truth, Tell, Please

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.
Mary Harris Jones

God, Fight, Play

I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
Mary Harris Jones

Afraid, Press, Militia

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?
Mary Harris Jones

Work, Children, Night

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
Mary Harris Jones

Life, Death, Lives

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.
Mary Harris Jones

Down, Between, Hands

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 1, 1837

Died: November 30, 1930

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