Mary Harris Jones Quote

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.


Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (1978)


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...

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...

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...

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...