Your organization is not a praying institution. It’s a fighting institution. It’s an educational institution right along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!
ATTRIBUTION:
Mother Jones (1830–1930), U.S. labor organizer. The Autobiography of Mother Jones, ch. 6 (1925).
Commanding members of a miners’ union in the Fairmont district of West Virginia to leave the church where they were meeting and gather instead in the fields.
