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"Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers."
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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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"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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