"Mother" Mary Jones
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Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against
wrong.
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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.
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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.
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Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the
coming conflicts.
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No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty
made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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• Each quotation
page in this collection and the entire collection are © Jone Johnson Lewis
1997-2004. This is an informal collection -- if you need citations for the
original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the
quotes.
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