I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

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

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

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation

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