Mother Jones
Mother Jones
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth1 August 1837
CountryUnited States of America
fighting men mountain
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
struggle work-out arizona
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
miners
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
people blind blindness
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
teacher teaching diamond-in-the-rough
My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
children two white
Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
coal world
Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.
heart men white
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
dark japan age
...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.
song children night
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?
army fighting thinking
I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor. Think of the thousands who are killed every year and there is no redress for it. We will fight until the mines are made secure and human life valued more than props. Look things in the face. Don't' fear a governor; don't fear anybody. You pay the governor; he has the right to protect you. You are the biggest part of the population in the state. You create its wealth, so I say, let the fight go on; if nobody else will keep on, I will.
strong hands world
Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
home average long
All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.
fighting matter no-matter-what
No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!