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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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"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."
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"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
"Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation."
"Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads."
"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 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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