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:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“Well, I’d certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste.”
—L.Q. Jones [Justus Mcqueen] (b. 1936)