Mary Harris Jones: Quotes about combat

Mary Harris Jones was Irish-born American labor and community organizer. Explore interesting quotes on fight.
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“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!”

Mary Harris Jones

Source: Autobiography of Mother Jones

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!”

Mary Harris Jones

Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925).
Context: 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!

“No matter what your fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.”

Mary Harris Jones

Source: 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.”

Mary Harris Jones

Source: Autobiography of Mother Jones