Mother Jones Quotes

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

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

- Mother Jones

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

- Mother Jones

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

- Mother Jones

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

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

- Mother Jones

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

- Mother Jones

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

- Mother Jones

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

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

That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.

- Mother Jones

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

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

- Mother Jones

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

- Mother Jones

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

- Mother Jones