Famous quotes containing the words mother jones, mother, jones and/or radio:
“I am not a suffragist, nor do I believe in careers for women, especially a career in factory and mill where most working women have their careers. A great responsibility rests upon womanthe training of children. This is her most beautiful task.”
—Mother Jones (18301930)
“He that would the daughter win
Must with the mother first begin.”
—17th-century English proverb, collected in J. Ray, English Proverbs (1670)
“... there are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.”
—Mother Jones (18301930)
“Denouement to denouement, he took a personal pride in the
certain, certain way he lived his own, private life,
but nevertheless, they shut off his gas; nevertheless,
the bank foreclosed; nevertheless, the landlord called;
nevertheless, the radio broke,
And twelve oclock arrived just once too often,”
—Kenneth Fearing (19021961)