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1. "I preferred sewing to bossing little children." ~ Mother Jones

2. "They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the hair torn out of their heads by the machinery, their scalps torn off, and yet not a single tear was shed, while the poodle dogs were loved and caressed and carried to the seashore." ~ Mother Jones

3. "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." ~ Mother Jones

4. "Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike." ~ Mother Jones

5. "Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!" ~ Mother Jones

6. "I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone." ~ Mother Jones

7. "If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!" ~ Mother Jones

8. "I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!" ~ Mother Jones

9. "Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time." ~ Mother Jones

10. "The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win." ~ Mother Jones

11. "I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do." ~ Mother Jones

12. "My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing." ~ Mother Jones

13. "A lady is the last thing on earth I want to be. Capitalists sidetrack the women into clubs and make ladies of them." ~ Mother Jones

14. "The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society." ~ Mother Jones

15. "[Women need to realize that with] what they have in their hands there is no limit to what they could accomplish. The trouble is they let the capitalists make them believe they wouldn't be ladylike." ~ Mother Jones

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Being a baby is hard.You born in a new world, whole wide world like it has no boundaries.You face new life that is extremely different with your previous life.You hear people talking, but never understand.You want to say something, but you don't know how, so you just cry out loud. And you hate the sound of it, so you keep crying again.Being a baby is hard, but sometimes they do have fun, and all the time they survive."
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