MOTHER JONES

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

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!

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

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

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.

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

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

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.

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.

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

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

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.

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?

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!

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.