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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones foi uma professora e costureira americana de origem irlandesa que se tornou uma proeminente líder trabalhista e organizadora comunitária.

Ela ajudou a organizar grandes greves e foi co-fundadora da Industrial Workers of the World.

Jones trabalhou como professora e costureira, mas depois que seu marido e todos os seus quatro filhos morreram de febre amarela, em 1867, e sua loja de vestidos foi destruída no Grande Incêndio de Chicago de 1871, começou a trabalhar como organizadora para o Knights of Labor e o sindicato de mineradores United Mine Workers. A partir de 1897, com cerca de 60 anos de idade, ela ficou conhecida como Mother Jones . Em 1902, ela era chamada de "a mulher mais perigosa da América", pelo seu sucesso na organização de mineiros e suas famílias contra os proprietários das minas. Em 1903, para protestar contra a aplicação frouxa das leis de trabalho infantil nas, minas e tecelagens de seda da Pensilvânia, ela organizou uma marcha de crianças de Filadélfia até a casa do presidente Theodore Roosevelt, em Nova York.

A revista Mother Jones, fundada em 1970, recebeu o nome em sua homenagem. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Agosto 1837 – 30. Novembro 1930
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Mother Jones: Frases em inglês

“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

Fonte: 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).
Contexto: 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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Fonte: 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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Fonte: 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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Fonte: 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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Fonte: 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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Fonte: 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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Fonte: 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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Fonte: Autobiography of Mother Jones

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

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Fonte: Autobiography of Mother Jones