Miners Quotes
The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.
Mary Harris Jones
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
Mother Jones
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
Arthur Scargill
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
William Shatner
My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
Agnes Smedley