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Mary Harris Jones
American Activist
Born: Aug 1, 1837
Died: Nov 30, 1930
Am Fight Me Men Will You
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
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
Man Prison Shoes Once States Would Would-Be Had He Him Said How Senator Stolen Happened Asked Pair United Railroad United States
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. Mary Harris Jones
God Women Made Thieves Almighty Rockefeller God Almighty Ladies Gang
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. Mary Harris Jones
Fight Hell Living Like Dead Pray Pray For
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union. Mary Harris Jones
Alone Achieve State Corporation Miner Could Powerful Get Achieved Against Union
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone. Mary Harris Jones
Alone Man Leader Believe Side Must Favors He Accept Committed Holds Either Then Should Stand Show Who Ever Position
I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser. Mary Harris Jones
Humanitarian
That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute. Mary Harris Jones
Care Wife Husband Cares Must Remain He Resolute
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. Mary Harris Jones
Me Fight Shoes Address Abide Wrong Like Where Against Travels
I will tell the truth wherever I please. Mary Harris Jones
Truth Will Please Tell Wherever
I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me. Mary Harris Jones
God Me Fight Would He Almighty Himself God Almighty Square Play
And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone. Mary Harris Jones
Everyone Responsible Child Appalling Who Slavery
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. Mary Harris Jones
Protection Believe Our Carried Out Suppress Wrongs Flag Movements
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
Desperate Men Clothes Despair Nursed Back Strike Out Martyrs Driven Dead Mothers Were Children Laid Sanity Who Ragged
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! Mary Harris Jones
Freedom Me Class Will Scaffold Hang Want Them Working Shout Working-Class
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
Girl Down Machinery Threads Between Reaching Boy Repair Snapped Up Up And Down Walked Hands Endless Little Little Girls Thin Rows
I preferred sewing to bossing little children. Mary Harris Jones
Sewing Children Little Little Children Preferred
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time. Mary Harris Jones
Time Injustice Men Pour White Steel Hot Does Ready Hearts Forth Fullness Boils
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit! Mary Harris Jones
Day Will Profit Possession City City Hall Some Take Sacrificed Altar Hall Child Workers Your
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win. Mary Harris Jones
Constitution Win Lost Other Side Miners Bayonets Only Had Because Always End In The End
Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation. Mary Harris Jones
Work Struggle Better Own Everywhere Out Must Disadvantage Advantage Arizona Came Conditions Labor Times Salvation Work Out Workers Who
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. Mary Harris Jones
Pen Scaffold Am Afraid Sword
Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. Mary Harris Jones
World Dug Coal
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. Mary Harris Jones
Me Shoes Address Like Travels
I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class. Mary Harris Jones
Freedom Class Will Am Anti Anything Which Bring
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. Mary Harris Jones
Truth Will Please Pen Scaffold Tell Am Afraid Wherever Sword
I abide where there is a fight against wrong. Mary Harris Jones
Fight Abide Wrong Where Against

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