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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Little
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Nov 07, 2020

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

I Was Born
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Nov 07, 2020

I was born in revolution.

Hands
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

Husband
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Hell
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Nov 07, 2020

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Men
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Ladylike
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Nov 07, 2020

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

Labor
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Fight
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Nov 07, 2020

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

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

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Against
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Nov 07, 2020

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Prison
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

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

God
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Nov 07, 2020

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Tell
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Nov 07, 2020

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

Night
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Nov 07, 2020

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?

Militia
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Nov 07, 2020

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

God
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Always
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Nov 07, 2020

I have always advised men to read.

Golden
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Everyone
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Flag
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Character
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Against
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Enough
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Clothes
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Facts
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Nov 07, 2020

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.

Hearts
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Nov 07, 2020

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

Dug
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Nov 07, 2020

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

Must
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Nov 07, 2020

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

Freedom
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Nov 07, 2020

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Bayonets
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

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!

Education
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Believe
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Day
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Nov 07, 2020

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!

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