Quotes by Mary Jones

• From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat.
• He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.
• New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.
• Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.
• Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.
• From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
• 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.
• 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.
• I have always advised men to read.
• Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
• Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.
• My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.
• 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.
• Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
• 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.
• What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
• 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 am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
• And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
• 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.
• Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
• Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
• I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
• I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
• I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.
• I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
• 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 abide where there is a fight against wrong.
• God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
• Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
• You must stand for free speech in the streets.
• 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 was born in revolution.
• What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
• You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
• 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?
• I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
• I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.
• I will tell the truth wherever I please.
• I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
• Success is not built on grand gestures, but on small consistent actions.
• Dream big and dare to fail - Success belongs to those who are willing to take risks.
• Perhaps the biggest risk is not taking any risks at all.
• Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
• Dream bigger, work harder, stay laser-focused.
• The key to happiness is not in having everything, but in finding joy in everything you have.
• When life gives you lemons, squeeze them in people's eyes. Just kidding! Please always be kind.