Author: Mary Harris Jones

Quotes

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

- Mary Harris Jones

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

- Mary Harris Jones

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.

- Mary Harris Jones

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

- Mary Harris Jones

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

- Mary Harris Jones

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

- Mary Harris Jones

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.

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.

- Mary Harris Jones

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

- Mary Harris Jones

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.

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.

- Mary Harris Jones

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