I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.
I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser - Mother Jones
I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser
- Mother Jones
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts. - Mother Jones
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
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 b… - Mother Jones
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 b…
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair s… - Mother Jones
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair s…
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth! - Mother Jones
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living - Mother Jones
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. - Mother Jones
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! - Mother Jones
No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!
I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery - Mother Jones
I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery
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