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Get it straight, I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
— Mary Harris Jones
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Mary Harris Jones
teacher, trade unionist, human rights defender, writer, union organizer, community organizer
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1830 – 1930
Mary G. Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labor, and co-founded the trade union Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
All Quotes by Mary Harris Jones
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If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I would shout, 'Freedom for the working class!'
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Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!
— Mary Harris Jones
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When I get to the otherside, I shall tell God Almighty about West Virginia!
— Mary Harris Jones
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I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
— Mary Harris Jones
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Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
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I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
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What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
— Mary Harris Jones