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"I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia."
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"If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page."
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
"If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon."
"You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying."
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"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people."
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