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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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"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."
"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."
"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."
"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
Explore more quotes by Mary Harris Jones
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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