Miners Quotes

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
William Shatner

Work, Hard, Series

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
Arthur Scargill

Strength, Often, Economic

The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?
Jeff Goodell

Work, Lives, Move

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.
Mary Harris Jones

History, Successful, Character

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

Life, Death, Lives

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
Mother Jones

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
Agnes Smedley

Men, Sympathy, Mother

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
Jimmy Breslin

Game, Football, Keep

Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.
Hilda Solis

Someone, Lost, Learned

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.
Martin C. Smith

Life, Time, Men

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
Richard Grimes

Leadership, Power, Business

My father and brothers were coal miners.
Merle Travis

Father, Brothers, Coal

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