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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.

— Mother Jones

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Get it straight, I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

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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.

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