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Mary Harrisová Jonesová bola americká učiteľka, módna návrhárka, aktivistka, socialistka a členka Industrial Workers of the World. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. august 1837 – 30. november 1930
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“Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!”

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Mary Harris Jones

Zdroj: Autobiography of Mother Jones

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!”

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Mary Harris Jones

Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925).
Kontext: Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!

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

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Autobiography of Mother Jones, p. 146 http://books.google.com/books?id=lFFfyG6DPXMC&pg=PA146

“Get it straight, I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.”

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After being introduced as a "great humanitarian", as quoted in Mother Jones : The Most Dangerous Woman in America‎ (2002) by Elliott J. Gorn, p. 3.

“No matter what your fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.”

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Zdroj: Autobiography of Mother Jones, p. 125 http://books.google.com/books?id=lFFfyG6DPXMC&pg=PA125

“Christ himself would agitate against them. He would agitate against the plutocrats and hypocrites who tell workers to go down on their knees and get right with God. Christ, the carpenter’s son, would tell them to stand up on their feet and fight for righteousness and justice on earth.”

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Zdroj: Autobiography of Mother Jones

“I do not believe that iron bars and brutal treatment have ever been cures for crime. And certainly I feel that in our great enlightened country, there is no reason for going back to middle ages and their form of torture for the criminal.”

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Zdroj: Autobiography of Mother Jones

“I knew it was useless to tell the governor about conditions as I found them. I knew he would be neither interested nor would he care. It wasn’t election time.”

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Zdroj: Autobiography of Mother Jones

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

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Zdroj: Autobiography of Mother Jones

“The old condition is passing away. The new dawn of another civilized nation is breaking into the lives of the human race.”

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Zdroj: Speech in Williamson, WV. (20 June 1920)

“Organized labor should organize its women along industrial lines. Politics is only the servant of industry. The plutocrats have organized their women. They keep them busy with suffrage and prohibition and charity.”

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Zdroj: Autobiography of Mother Jones

“When I get to the otherside, I shall tell God Almighty about West Virginia!”

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Zdroj: Autobiography of Mother Jones