Top 10 most inspiring 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.
- Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
- My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
- No matter what the fight, don’t be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
- A lady is the last thing on earth I want to be. Capitalists sidetrack the women into clubs and make ladies of them.
- I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don’t need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!
- 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.
- What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
- 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.
Mary Harris Jones, also known as “Mother Jones,” was an Irish-American labor and community organizer, born on August 1, 1837, in County Cork, Ireland. She became a prominent figure in the American labor movement, known for her passionate speeches and tireless advocacy for workers’ rights.
After losing her husband and four children to yellow fever, Jones became involved in the labor movement, working alongside prominent figures such as Eugene V. Debs and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). She organized numerous strikes and led campaigns for better working conditions, particularly for coal miners and child laborers.
Jones was also a fierce advocate for women’s suffrage, speaking at rallies and organizing marches to demand the right to vote. She continued to work for social justice throughout her life and was active in various causes until her death on November 30, 1930, at the age of 93. Today, Jones is remembered as a powerful and influential figure in American labor history.
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