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Mary Harris Jones

"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

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"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."
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"You must stand for free speech in the streets."
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"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."
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"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."
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"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."
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"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?"
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"I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me."
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"I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia."
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"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
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