| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31470 |
| QUOTATION: | We are told that every American boy has the chance of being president. I tell you that these little boys in the iron cages would sell their chance any day for good square meals and a chance to play. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mother Jones (1830–1930), U.S. labor organizer. The Autobiography of Mother Jones, ch. 10 (1925).
Addressing a crowd at a wild animal show at Coney Island, New York, in 1903. She was accompanied by striking child textile workers from Kensington, Pennsylvania, whom she had locked in empty iron animal cages to make a symbolic point. |
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