Mother Jones
Mother Jones
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth1 August 1837
CountryUnited States of America
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.
mother children men
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.
children slavery responsible
And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
children two white
Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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?
children littles sewing
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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!
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.
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.