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About Mary Harris Jones
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was an Irish-American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer. She then helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Born:
1837
, Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Died:
November 30, 1930, Adelphi, Maryland, United States
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Mary Harris Jones Quotes
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
Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925)
Get it straight, I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
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Mary Harris Jones
After being introduced as a "great humanitarian".
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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Mary Harris Jones