Mother Jones
Mother Jones
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth1 August 1837
CountryUnited States of America
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.
stand strength victory
We must stand together; if we don't, there will be no victory for any one of us.
cross early learned others vicarious wrongs
I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
dead pray
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
bayonets miners
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
technology class want
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
fighting clothes age
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
believe responsibility men
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.
friday monday morning
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!
journey destination final-destination
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination
children gun class
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.
limits privilege slavery
I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery
men shoes economic-inequality
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.
telling-the-truth please
I will tell the truth wherever I please.