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

Mary Harris Jones

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

Mary Harris Jones

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

Mary Harris Jones


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

Mary Harris Jones


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A lady is the last thing on earth I want to be. Capitalists sidetrack the women into clubs and make ladies of them.

Mary Harris Jones


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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

Mary Harris Jones


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I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.

Mary Harris Jones


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[Women need to realize that with] what they have in their hands there is no limit to what they could accomplish. The trouble is they let the capitalists make them believe they wouldn't be ladylike.

Mary Harris Jones


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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

Mary Harris Jones


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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!

Mary Harris Jones


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