Mother Jones
Mother Jones
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth1 August 1837
CountryUnited States of America
stand strength victory
We must stand together; if we don't, there will be no victory for any one of us.
limits privilege slavery
I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery
thieves gang almighty
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
children gun class
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.
fighting clothes age
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
children effort insane
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.
hell humanitarian
I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
friday monday morning
Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. 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!
children cities profit
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!
fighting squares play
I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me
fighting hell mourn
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
boys years jail
a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.
earth meek militant
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
labor-force together want
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.