God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.Collection: Women
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.Collection: Alone
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.Collection: Truth
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.Collection: Education
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.
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!
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 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.
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!
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
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.
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
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 am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
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.
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.
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
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.
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.