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Mary Harris Jones

"I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia."

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"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people."
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"I will tell the truth wherever I please."
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"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword."
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"I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
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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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"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."
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"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 be a United States Senator."
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"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."
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"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."
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"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."
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