Author: Mary Harris Jones

Quotes

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

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

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

- Mary Harris Jones

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

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

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

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

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

I have always advised men to read.

I have always advised men to read.

- 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

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