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All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.

But in Shimabukuro’s hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.

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

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.

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.

I was born in revolution.

Men’s hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

I am Mother Jones. The Government can’t take my life and you can’t take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

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

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

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists – the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

I have always advised men to read.

I’m not afraid of the press or the Militia.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn’t play square with me.

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.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don’t need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor’s strong, rough hands.

Strong Quotes

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

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

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

Injustice boils in men’s hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

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.

No matter what the fight, don’t be ladylike!

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

I believe that no man who holds a leader’s position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!

My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.

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

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

Freedom for the working class!

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