Top 35 Quotes by Mary Harris Jones

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

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'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

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

You must stand for free speech in the streets.