Mary Harris Jones Quotes

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

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

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

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.

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.