"I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor. Think of the thousands who are killed every year and there is no redress for it. We will fight until the mines are made secure and human life valued more than props. Look things in the face. Don't' fear a governor; don't fear anybody. You pay the governor; he has the right to protect you. You are the biggest part of the population in the state. You create its wealth, so I say, let the fight go on; if nobody else will keep on, I will."
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Mother Jones quotes (page 2 of 3)
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"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!"
"The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!"
"All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance."
"I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser."
"I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me"
"You must stand for free speech in the streets."
"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?"
"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"
"Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands."
"I will tell the truth wherever I please."
"I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators."
"My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing."
"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives"
"But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster."
"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
"I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false."
"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
"I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia."
"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"