Mary Harris Jones

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

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.

I was born in revolution.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

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

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

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.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

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

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

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!