Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
Mary Harris Jones

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.
Mary Harris Jones

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
Mary Harris Jones

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.
Mary Harris Jones

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.
Mary Harris Jones

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

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
Mary Harris Jones

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
Mary Harris Jones

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.
Mary Harris Jones

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

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
Mary Harris Jones

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

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

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
Mary Harris Jones

You must stand for free speech in the streets.
Mary Harris Jones