Mary Harris Jones

“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.”

“My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.”

“I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.”

“Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”

“The producer is the only man who is essential. The parasite is the man who is not.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

“No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!”

“I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell!”

“My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.”

“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.”

“Join the union, boys, and together we will lick the son-of-a-bitch.”

“Injustice boils in my heart.”

“I have been in jail more than once and I expect to go again. If you are too cowardly to fight, I will fight.”

“God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.”