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Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Mary Harris Jones
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Author Profession:
Activist
Nationality:
American
Born:
August 1
, 1837
Died:
November 30
, 1930
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Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.
Mary Harris Jones
Hands
Little Girls
Down
Up And Down
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
Mary Harris Jones
Life
Death
Out
Miners
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
Mary Harris Jones
Children
Sewing
Little Children
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
Mary Harris Jones
Education
Journey
Destination
Like
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
Mary Harris Jones
Time
Men
Hot
White
Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.
Mary Harris Jones
Fight
Your
Whatever
Ladylike
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!
Mary Harris Jones
Day
City
Child
Will
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
Mary Harris Jones
End
Win
Constitution
Lost
Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.
Mary Harris Jones
Work
Struggle
Better
Own
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
Mary Harris Jones
I Am
Pen
Sword
Afraid
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
Mary Harris Jones
I Am
Play
False
Out
Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.
Mary Harris Jones
World
Coal
Dug
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.
Mary Harris Jones
Man
Shoes
Prison
Said
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.
Mary Harris Jones
Me
Shoes
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