Mother Jones
Mother Jones
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth1 August 1837
CountryUnited States of America
girl boys hands
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
fighting hell mourn
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
hell humanitarian
I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser
children cities profit
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!
thieves gang almighty
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
children effort insane
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.