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"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

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Mary Harris Jones Quotes (Author of Autobiography of Mother Jones)

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20 quotes from Mary Harris Jones: 'I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser. ', 'Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.', and 'I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes.

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Since its start in 1976, Mother Jones has won many awards for its reporting, illustration, photography, videos and social media. It has been nominated for the prestigious National Magazine Award for General Excellence nine times, winning on three occasions. Below are some of its more recent awards.

ASME National Magazine Award (Social Media), Finalist
Mother Jones

Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, Finalist
Julia Lurie

SPJ Northern California Excellence in Journalism Awards (Explanatory Journalism),
Winner
Opioids Reporting
Julia Lurie

Society of Publication Designers (News Documentary), Finalist
Mother Jones

Society of Publication Designers (Animated Content), Finalist
Mother Jones

I.F Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence, Winner
Monika Bauerlein, Clara Jeffery

Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, Finalist
Julia Lurie

Institute for Nonprofit News' Best of 2019
"Hooked"
Julia Lurie

ASME National Magazine Award (Social Media), Finalist
Mother Jones

SEAL Environmental Journalism Awards, Winner
Rebecca Leber

Maggie Awards (Overall Magazine Category), Winner
Mother Jones

National Magazine Award(Magazine of the Year), Winner
Mother Jones

National Magazine Award (General Excellence), Finalist
Mother Jones

Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, Finalist
" My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard"
Shane Bauer

Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism, Finalist
" My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard"
Shane Bauer

National Magazine Award (Best Reporting), Finalist
" The Fever"
David Ferry

SPJ NorCal Excellence in Journalism Award (Journalist of the Year)
Shane Bauer

James Madison Freedom of Information Award
Mother Jones

Association of Food Journalists (Best Food Column), Finalist
Tom Philpott

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Since its start in 1976, Mother Jones has won many awards for its reporting, illustration, photography, videos and social media. It has been nominated for the prestigious National Magazine Award for General Excellence nine times, winning on three occasions. Below are some of its more recent awards.

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Mother Jones - EPIC Stories in 30 Seconds

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A MOTHER JONES AWARD

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Although Mother Jones is no longer with us, she has been a great example to follow in the history of empowered women and precisely for this reason, she has received great recognition and her name has been on the lips of important entities. In fact, it has its own prize "The Mother Jones Award", which today is given to those who show their qualities and leadership as public figures.

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Jones rose to prominence as a fiery orator and fearless organizer for the Mine Workers during the first two decades of the 20th century. Her voice had great carrying power. Her energy and passion inspired men half her age into action and compelled their wives and daughters to join in the struggle.

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“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.”― Mother Jones

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“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.”― Mother Jones

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

― Mother Jones

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“No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.”

― Mother Jones

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“Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”― Mother Jones

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“Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”― Mother Jones

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“I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser. ”

― Mother Jones

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Jones is in Mingo County. West Virginia in the events that would lead up to the Battle of Blair Mountain

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Jones is arrested while speaking to steel workers in Homestead, PA.

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Jones tells union members in West Virginia to keep digging for the war effort.

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While in Colorado, she witnesses the Ludlow Massacre, orchestrated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.

(In 1916 Jones and Rockefeller Jr. both appeal for clemency for a life inmate imprisoned as a result of the Ludlow Massacre.)

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Jones returns to west Virginia and in february 1913, she is arrested on complicity in murder charges. After being released, she joins strikers in Colorado and condemns the suffrage movement.

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Jones becomes known as an activist during the Pullman strikes.

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She visits President Mckinley to advocate on behalf of S.D. Worden in connection to his murder conviction during the Pullman Strikes.

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Jones travels to Alleghany County. Pennsylvania to support coal strikers there.

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Jones supports striking silk workers in Scranton, Pennsylvania and Paterson, New Jersey.
(In 1902 Jones is arrested in Virginia)

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Jones supports striking telegram workers and encourages women to desert sweethearts who return to work before the strike is over.

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Jones organizes and marches from Pennsylvania to New York with striking mill children to call attention to their plight.

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-Her full name was Mary G. Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones.

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Jones Joins strikers in Colorado, Utah, New York, and Chicago.

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-The rock of Mother Jones' faith was her conviction that working Americans acting together must free themselves from poverty and powerlessness. She believed in the need for citizens of a democracy to participate in public affairs.

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-She was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist.

-Born May 1, 1830, Cork, Ireland—died November 30, 1930, Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.

-She was a labor organizer, widely known in the United States as a fiery agitator for the union rights of coal miners and other workers.

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QUOTES:

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Mary Harris Jones lived through many hardships including famine, epidemics, fire, and poverty, but she only got stronger and more independent.

Her family emigrated to Canada where her illiterate parents made an unusual effort to keep her in school until she was seventeen years old.

Jones had her first experience with labor unions when she moved to Memphis to marry George Jones, who was a factory worker. As the yellow fever epidemic spread through Tennessee, her husband and four children died, and she left the Irish and African American strikers of Memphis for Chicago.

Due to the large number of laborers working in horrible conditions in Illinois in the late eighteen hundreds, many strikes occurred, several of which were started by the motivated and independent Mary Harris Jones. In this way, becoming an active member of the community and earning her fame.