Mary Harris Jones Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

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

“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 abide where there is a fight against wrong.”

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

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

“I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.”

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

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