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Mary Harris Jones

"I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people."

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"I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people."

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"I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class."
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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 was born in revolution."
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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'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser."
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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 would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me."
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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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"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."
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"I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false."
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