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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."
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"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."
Boys
"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."
Politics
"I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia."
Press
"The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt."
History
"And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone."
Suffrage
"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."
Life
"I will tell the truth wherever I please."
Truth
"I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false."
Leadership
"God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies."
Woman
"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand."
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
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"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."
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"We always strive to be the best in the wage package."
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"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"
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"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."
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"Is a PLONGEUR'S work really necessary to civilization? We have a feeling that it must be 'honest' work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work. We see a man cutting down a tree, and we make sure that he is filling a social need, just because he uses his muscles; it does not occur to us that he may only be cutting down a beautiful tree to make room for a hideous statue. I believe it is the same with a PLONGEUR. He earns his bread in the sweat of his brow, but it does not follow that he is doing anything useful; he may be only supplying a luxury which, very often, is no luxury at all."
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"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
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"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
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"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
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"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."
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