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QUOTATION:No matter what your fight, don’t be ladylike! God Almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
ATTRIBUTION:Mother Jones (1830–1930), U.S. labor organizer. The Autobiography of Mother Jones, ch. 22 (1925).

From her address to a 1915 dinner assemblage of 500 women, most of them suffragists. Jones herself was never active on behalf of woman suffrage. The Rockefellers were a wealthy family of industrialists.
 
 
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