I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.
I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
I was born in revolution.
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
You must stand for free speech in the streets.
Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.