Top 35 Quotes by Mary Harris Jones

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

I was born in revolution.

I have always advised men to read.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.