Mother Jones

Mother Jones

Labor Activist

Mother Jones was a prominent labor leader and activist known for her relentless fight for workers' rights and social justice during the early 20th century.

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Born
May 1, 1830
Died
November 30, 1930
Quotes
59
Rank
#5943

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"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."

Mother Government Hands
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"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."

Men Principles Citizens
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"Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers."

Children Two White
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"I have always advised men to read"

Men
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"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."

California Southern Railroads
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"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."

Mother Children Men
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"Not all the coal that is dug warms the world."

Coal World
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"Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent."

Heart Men Cold
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"I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people"

Country People Want
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"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."

Believe Flags Movement
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"That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute."

Husband Wife Care
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"...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world."

Dark Japan Age
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