FastSaying

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

Mary Harris Jones

Related Quotes

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
— Mary Harris Jones
AchieveAchievedAgainst
In Southern California we are more prepared for disasters than they were in the Gulf (of Mexico) area.
— Mary Bono
AreaCaliforniaDisasters
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.
— Mary Harris Jones
AskedHadHappened
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.
— Mary Harris Jones
BackChildrenClothes
If we didn't have a huge multinational corporation on our backs, we'd be golden.
— Ben Curtis
BacksCorporationGolden