I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
Mother Jones
I nursed men back to sanity ...
Quotes from the same author
I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
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
Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men
Mother Jones
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
Mother Jones
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
Mother Jones
