Famous quotes containing the words mother jones, mother, jones and/or radio:
“Taking men into the union is just the kindergarten of their education and every force is against their further education. Men who live up those lonely creeks have only the mine owners Y.M.C.As, the mine owners preachers and teachers, the mine owners doctors and newspapers to look to for their ideas. So they dont get many.”
—Mother Jones (18301930)
“All my life Ive felt like somebodys wife, or somebodys mother or somebodys daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And thats why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.”
—Robert Benton (b. 1932)
“Your organization is not a praying institution. Its a fighting institution. Its an educational institution right along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!”
—Mother Jones (18301930)
“All radio is dead. Which means that these tape recordings Im making are for the sake of future history. If any.”
—Barré Lyndon (18961972)