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.
More Quotes by Mary Harris Jones
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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.