Mary Harris Jones

“My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.”

“I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.”

“That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.”

“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.”

“What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.”

“I will tell the truth wherever I please.”

“My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.”

“I have always advised men to read.”

“Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.”

“I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.”