{"quotes":[{"text":"There are no wastelands in our landscape quite like those we've created ourselves.","author":"Tim Winton","tags":["australia","environment","mining"],"id":11589,"author_id":"Tim+Winton"},{"text":"Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.”“What are we going to need it for?” asks a voice from the crowd.“For guns and ammunition,” says I.","author":"Jerry Ash","tags":["capitalism","child-labor","democracy","economics","great-depression","industrial-revolution","industry","labor","military","mill-workers","miners","mining","political","poverty","robber-barons","slavery","social","sweatshops","unions","yellow-journalism"],"id":24080,"author_id":"Jerry+Ash"},{"text":"I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a union meeting. I have some things to say today that God would not want to hear in His own house. Boys, I want you to get up, every one of you, and go across the road. I want you to sit down on the hillside over there and wait for me to speak to you.","author":"Jerry Ash","tags":["capitalism","child-labor","democracy","economics","great-depression","industrial-revolution","industry","labor","military","mill-workers","miners","mining","political","poverty","robber-barons","slavery","social","sweatshops","unions","yellow-journalism"],"id":46691,"author_id":"Jerry+Ash"},{"text":"Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all due respect to the governor here, that I doubt seriously that he will do — cannot do — anything. And for the reason that he is owned, lock, stock and barrel, by the capitalists who placed him here in this building.” — Mother Jones.","author":"Jerry Ash","tags":["capitalism","child-labor","democracy","economics","great-depression","industrial-revolution","industry","labor","military","mill-workers","miners","mining","political","poverty","robber-barons","slavery","social","sweatshops","unions","yellow-journalism"],"id":69878,"author_id":"Jerry+Ash"},{"text":"That’s got to stop,” says I. “The idea of any blood-thirsty pirate (Mexican President Diaz) sitting on a throne and reaching across the border to tromp on our Constitution makes my blood boil.” — Mother Jones.","author":"Jerry Ash","tags":["capitalism","child-labor","democracy","economics","great-depression","industrial-revolution","industry","labor","military","mill-workers","miners","mining","political","poverty","robber-barons","slavery","social","sweatshops","unions","yellow-journalism"],"id":72185,"author_id":"Jerry+Ash"},{"text":"Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved...So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they never taught us what was real,Iron and coke,And chromium steel,And we're waiting here in Allentown...But they've taken all the coal from the ground,And the union people crawled away...","author":"Billy Joel","tags":["allentown","america","blue-collar","canada","chromium","coal","coke","economic","education","environment","factory","hippie","iron","lies","manufacture","mill","mining","pennsylvania","pittsburgh","plant","school","steel","steel-mill","teacher","train","tutor"],"id":79893,"author_id":"Billy+Joel"},{"text":"You share the same destiny as everyone else, the same history, the same hardship, the same rot, the same Tram beer, the same dog kebabs, the same narrative as soon as you come into the world. You start out baby-chick or slim-jim or child-soldier. You graduate to endlessly striking student or desperado. If you've got a family on the trains, then you work on the trains; otherwise like a ship you wash up on the edge of hope - a suicidal, a carjacker, a digger with dirty teeth, a mechanic, a street sleeper, a commission agent, an errand boy employed by for-profit tourists, a hawker of secondhand coffins. Your fate is already sealed like that of the locomotives carrying spoiled merchandise and the dying.","author":"Fiston Mwanza Mujila","tags":["children","jobs","life","mining","struggle-for-life","students"],"id":110666,"author_id":"Fiston+Mwanza+Mujila"},{"text":"If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.","author":"Bindi Irwin","tags":["company","want","mining "],"id":119287,"author_id":"Bindi+Irwin"},{"text":"It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.","author":"Roger Maris","tags":["money","down","mining "],"id":166068,"author_id":"Roger+Maris"},{"text":"What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh,” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones.","author":"Jerry Ash","tags":["capitalism","child-labor","democracy","economics","great-depression","industrial-revolution","industry","labor","military","mill-workers","miners","mining","political","poverty","robber-barons","slavery","social","sweatshops","unions","yellow-journalism"],"id":191910,"author_id":"Jerry+Ash"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}