Mother Jones Quotes
"Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!"
- Mother Jones
(Related: Day, Possession, Will, Workers)
"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Fight, Hell, Living)
"My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Teachers)
"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Fight, Wrong)
"Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Time, Men, Injustice)
"I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Hell)
"Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Fight)
"The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Constitution, End)
"If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!"
- Mother Jones
(Related: Freedom, Want, Will)
"I preferred sewing to bossing little children."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Children)
"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."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Career, Labor, Wrongs)
"I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Leader, Favors, Man)
"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Truth, Pen, Will)
"I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!"
- Mother Jones
(Related: Country, Hell, Vote)