The Good Quote
Open menu
Quotes
Authors
Topics
More
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
Home
Authors
Mother Jones
American
Activist
About the author
That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Wife
#HusbCare
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Will
#Day
#Workers
#Possession
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Hell
#Living
#Fight
My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Teachers
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Wrong
#Fight
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Time
#Men
#Injustice
I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Hell
Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Fight
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#End
#Constitution
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Want
#Will
#Freedom
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Children
I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Career
#Labor
#Wrongs
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Man
#Leader
#Favors
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Will
#Truth
#Pen
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!
Mother Jones,
American
Activist
#Country
#Hell
#Vote