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1837–1930 United States
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930), born in Cork, Ireland, was a prominent American socialist, labor and community organizer, and a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Get it straight, I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
The old condition is passing away. The new dawn of another civilized nation is breaking into the lives of the human race.
No matter what your fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I would shout, 'Freedom for the working class!'
Christ, the carpenter’s son, would tell them to stand up on their feet and fight for righteousness and justice on earth.
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?
The future is in labor’s strong, rough hands.
If you ever saw a policeman with a club in his hand, I want to ask you, did you ever see that policeman club a millionaire? But it is "Get out of here, damn you, go on to jail, damn you," if it is a working man.
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
When I get to the otherside, I shall tell God Almighty about West Virginia!
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!
I knew it was useless to tell the governor about conditions as I found them. I knew he would be neither interested nor would he care. It wasn’t election time.
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