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• Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!

  Mother Jones

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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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?

  Mother Jones

  Song, Children, Night

  Jones (Mother), Philip Sheldon Foner (1983). “Mother Jones speaks: collected writings and speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.

  Mother Jones

  Boys, Years, Jail

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• I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.

  Mother Jones

  Hell, Humanitarian

  "Mother Jones : The Most Dangerous Woman in America‎" by Elliott J. Gorn, (p. 3), 2002.

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• I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

  Mother Jones

  Fighting, Squares, Play

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• You must stand for free speech in the streets.

  Mother Jones

  Speech, Free Speech, Streets

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

  Mother Jones

  Powerful, Corporations, Unions

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• Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

  Mother Jones

  Strong, Hands, World

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

  Mother Jones

  Telling The Truth, Not Afraid, Please

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• Freedom for the working class!

  Mother Jones

  Class, Working Class

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, Courier Corporation, (p. 146), April 30, 2012.

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• And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Slavery, Responsible

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• I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

  Mother Jones

  Betrayal, Play, Leader

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• Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

  Mother Jones

  Coal, World

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• I have always advised men to read

  Mother Jones

  Men

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

  Mother Jones

  People, Blind, Blindness

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

  Mother Jones

  Children, Two, White

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• But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.

  Mother Jones

  Jumping, Rocks, Hands

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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

  Mother Jones

  Fighting, Men, Mountain

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• Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

  Mother Jones

  Miners

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• I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.

  Mother Jones

  Not Afraid, Militia, Presses

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• What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

  Mother Jones

  Men, Principles, Citizens

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

  Mother Jones

  Mother, Government, Hands

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• 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.

  Mother Jones

  Mother, Children, Men

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• My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Diamond In The Rough

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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.

  Mother Jones

  California, Southern, Railroads

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