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

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

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

I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor. Think of the thousands who are killed every year and there is no redress for it. We will fight until the mines are made secure and human life valued more than props. Look things in the face. Don't' fear a governor; don't fear anybody. You pay the governor; he has the right to protect you. You are the biggest part of the population in the state. You create its wealth, so I say, let the fight go on; if nobody else will keep on, I will.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.