Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
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.
I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
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.
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.
I was born in revolution.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
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 believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.