Miners Quotes

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.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

My father and brothers were coal miners.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

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.

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.