"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers"
This quote is written / told by Mary Harris Jones between August 1, 1837 and November 30, 1930. He/she was a famous Activist from USA.
The author also have 31 other quotes.
"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico"
"On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes"
"Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history"
"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree"
"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger"
"One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt"