About Mary Harris Jones: Mary Harris was an Irish-American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer. She then helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World.
I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
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.
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.
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.
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.
Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
I have always advised men to read.
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.
