The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win. Mary Harris Jones Read Quote
The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. Mary Harris Jones Read Quote
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union. Mary Harris Jones Read Quote
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow. Mary Harris Jones Read Quote
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. Mary Harris Jones Read Quote
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. Mary Harris Jones Read Quote
I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people. Mary Harris Jones Read Quote
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. Mary Harris Jones Read Quote
I am Mother Jones. The Government can’t take my life and you can’t take my arm, but you can take my suitcase. Mary Harris Jones Read Quote
