Your organization is not a praying institution. It’s a fighting institution. It’s an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1860-1930) American labor leader [a.k.a. Mother Jones]
Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925)
To the Fairmont, WV, district miners, telling them to leave the church where they were meeting and gather in the fields.
Quotations by:
Jones, Mary Harris “Mother”
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.
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1860-1930) American labor leader [a.k.a. Mother Jones]
Speech (1903), in The Autobiography of Mother Jones, ch. 10 (1925)
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1860-1930) American labor leader [a.k.a. Mother Jones]
Speech, Cooper Union, New York City (1915)
On the failed Colorado miners' strike.