| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31471 |
| QUOTATION: | I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don’t need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mother Jones (1830–1930), U.S. labor organizer. The Autobiography of Mother Jones, ch. 22 (1925).
From a 1915 address to a dinner assemblage of 500 women, most of them suffragists. Five years later, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution would take effect, granting women the vote. |
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