A biography for Mary Harris Joneshasn’t been written yet.
“I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.”
“Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.”
“God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.”
“You must stand for free speech in the streets.”
“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.”
“I preferred sewing to bossing little children.”
“Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.”
“Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.”
“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.”
“I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.”
“I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.”
“I abide where there is a fight against wrong.”
“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!”
“Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.”
“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?”
“Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.”
“Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.”
“I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.”
“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!”
“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”