Mother Jones
Mother Jones
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth1 August 1837
CountryUnited States of America
not-afraid militia presses
I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
telling-the-truth please
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
home average long
All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.
army fighting thinking
I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor. Think of the thousands who are killed every year and there is no redress for it. We will fight until the mines are made secure and human life valued more than props. Look things in the face. Don't' fear a governor; don't fear anybody. You pay the governor; he has the right to protect you. You are the biggest part of the population in the state. You create its wealth, so I say, let the fight go on; if nobody else will keep on, I will.
coal world
Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.
dark japan age
...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.
fighting matter no-matter-what
No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!
women fighting shoes
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
jumping rocks hands
But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.
telling-the-truth not-afraid please
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
miners
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
down-and conflict educate
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
powerful unions corporations
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
bayonets miners
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.