"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."
~ Barbara Castle

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

"In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there."
~ Billy Bragg