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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.
Mary Harris Jones
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
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
Mary Harris Jones
I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
Mary Harris Jones
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
Mary Harris Jones
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.
Mary Harris Jones
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
Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
Mary Harris Jones
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mary Harris Jones
I was born in revolution.
Mary Harris Jones
You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
Mary Harris Jones
I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.
Mary Harris Jones
I have always advised men to read.
Mary Harris Jones
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
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
Mary Harris Jones
I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
Mary Harris Jones
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
Mary Harris Jones
You must stand for free speech in the streets.
Mary Harris Jones
I don't care about political parties. I went down to the Greenback parties, to the Populist party, in fact I went through them all. I found some of the parties most powerful weapons, but money interest prostitutes them all. Nowhere have you elected a man in this last election that represents you interests. I do not care what political party you put in power because we are of the economical power. We have the power to do and we will do it! They are not going to fool us there. It was not the political party that gained the eight hour day for the railroad man.
Mary Harris Jones
[Regarding the military violence and terrorism against the miners of the 1903 Cripple Creek strike] And why were these things done? Because a group of men had demanded an eight hour day, a check weighman and the abolition of the scrip system that kept them in serfdom to the mighty coal barons. That was all. Just that miners had refused to labor under these conditions. Just because miners wanted a better chance for their children, more of the sunlight, more freedom. And for this they suffered one whole year and for this they died.
Mary Harris Jones
Human flesh, warm and soft and capable of being wounded, went naked up against steel; steel that is cold as old stars, and harder than death and incapable of pain. Bayonets and guns and steel rails and battleships, bombs and bullets are made of steel. And only babies are made of flesh. More babies grow up and work in steel, to hurl themselves against the bayonets, to know the tempered resistance of steel.
Mary Harris Jones
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