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.
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.