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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.

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Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

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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.

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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

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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.

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I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.

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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

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What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

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What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: August 1st, 1837

Died: November 30th, 1930

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