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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.
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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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No matter what the fight, don’t be ladylike!
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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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You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
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I’m not afraid of the press or the Militia.
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I have always advised men to read.
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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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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
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Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor’s strong, rough hands.
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