Mary Harris Jones

“Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.”

“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.”

“I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.”

“What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.”

“You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.”

“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.”

“Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.”

“That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.”

“I was born in revolution.”

“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.”

“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.”

“If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!”

“I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.”

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

“I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.”

“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.”