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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

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?

From Mary Harris Jones

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.

From Mary Harris Jones

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

From Mary Harris Jones