Mary Harris Jones Quotes

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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Mary Harris Jones
Get it straight, I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.

Mary Harris Jones
No matter what your fight, don't be ladylike! God Almighty made woman and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

Mary Harris Jones
You can't do anything worth while till you get over minding what people say.

Mary Harris Jones
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
Get it right. I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.

Mary Harris Jones
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.

Mary Harris Jones
I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

Mary Harris Jones
When a laborer sweats his sweat of blood and weeps his tears of blood a remedy is thrust upon the world. I am remedy.

Mary Harris Jones
On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.

Mary Harris Jones
There is a difference between women and ladies. The modern parasites made ladies, but God Almighty made women.

Mary Harris Jones
The life of the miner is the same wherever coal is dug and capital flies its black flag.

Mary Harris Jones
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
My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.

Mary Harris Jones
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!

Mary Harris Jones
We must stand together; if we don't, there will be no victory for any one of us.

Mary Harris Jones
The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs.

Mary Harris Jones
All the world's history has produced no more savage and brutal times than these, and this nation will perish if we do not change these conditions.

Mary Harris Jones
No tragedy was ever comprehended that went from the mouth to the ear. It has to pass from the eye to the soul.

Mary Harris Jones
I always slept in my clothes, for I never knew what might happen. Not even my incarceration in a damp underground dungeon will make me give up the fight in which I am engaged for liberty and for the rights of the working people. To be shut from the sunlight is not pleasant but... I shall stand firm. To be in prison is no disgrace.

Mary Harris Jones
There are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.

Mary Harris Jones
Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

Mary Harris Jones
I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Mary Harris Jones
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.

Mary Harris Jones