Mother Jones
Mother Jones
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth1 August 1837
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
heart men cold
Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
men citizens principles
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
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.
men
I have always advised men to read
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
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.
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.