Mother Jones Men Quotations

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.

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.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

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.

I have always advised men to read

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

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

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

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