Mary Harris Jones Professions : Activist Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by Mary Harris Jones Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. Mary Harris Jones out miners life death Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination. Mary Harris Jones like destination journey education Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. Mary Harris Jones dead fight living hell 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. Mary Harris Jones little-girls down up-and-down hands Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time. Mary Harris Jones white hot time men Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike. Mary Harris Jones whatever your fight ladylike 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! Mary Harris Jones city will day child The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win. Mary Harris Jones end win constitution lost I preferred sewing to bossing little children. Mary Harris Jones little-children sewing children 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. Mary Harris Jones own better struggle work I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. Mary Harris Jones sword pen afraid i-am I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. Mary Harris Jones false out i-am play Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. Mary Harris Jones dug coal world 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. Mary Harris Jones man shoes prison said My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. Mary Harris Jones address like me shoes I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class. Mary Harris Jones i-am will freedom class 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? Mary Harris Jones day work song children I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. Mary Harris Jones sword pen i-am truth The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. Mary Harris Jones american peaceful character history What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union. Mary Harris Jones alone get achieve powerful Similar Authors Brooke Axtell activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali activist Assata Shakur activist Arun Manilal Gandhi activist Arthur Hertzberg activist Arlene Holt Baker activist All Authors
