Mother Jones Quotes
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I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser
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I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people
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I have always advised men to read
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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
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What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
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I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
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Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
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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
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I was born in revolution.
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I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
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No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!
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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand
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Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
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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.
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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.
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Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination
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I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
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Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
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I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
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I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
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I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
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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?
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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.
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I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me
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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.
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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.
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...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.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.
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