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I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!
Mother Jones
Country
Hell
Vote
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mother Jones
Truth
Pen
Will
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.
Mother Jones
Leader
Favors
Man
I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
Mother Jones
Career
Labor
Wrongs
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
Mother Jones
Children
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
Mother Jones
Freedom
Want
Will
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
Mother Jones
Constitution
End
Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.
Mother Jones
Fight
I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
Mother Jones
Hell
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
Mother Jones
Time
Men
Injustice
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
Mother Jones
Fight
Wrong
My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
Mother Jones
Teachers
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Mother Jones
Fight
Hell
Living
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!
Mother Jones
Day
Possession
Will
Workers
That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.
Mother Jones
Wife
HusbCare