Mother Jones
(Mary Harris Jones)
(1830-1930)

American Labor & Community Organizer
National Women's Hall of Fame
Labor Hall of Fame

birthdate: May 1
birthplace: Cork, Ireland

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QUOTES

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."

"Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living."

"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children."