Mary Harris Jones Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

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

“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 am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You must stand for free speech in the streets.”

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