Mother Jones

Mother Jones may refer to:

  • Mary Harris Jones (called "Mother Jones", 1837–1930), American labor and community organizer
  • Mother Jones (magazine), liberal political magazine named after Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
  • Mother Jones' Prison, formerly a National Historic Landmark in West Virginia

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or jones:

    “Don Pedro. You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.
    Beatrice. So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I said in my novel that the clergyman is a kind of human Sunday. Jones and I settled that my sister May was a kind of human Good Friday and Mrs. Bovill an Easter Monday or some other Bank Holiday.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)