Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

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Jeannette Pickering Rankin was elected in 1940.
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If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

Jeannette Rankin

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

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You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

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Killing more people won't help matters.

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Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

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We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

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We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun.

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The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

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Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

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As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

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It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.

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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

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War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

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Author Bio

  • NameJeannette Rankin
  • DescriptionUnited States congresswoman famous for voting against U.S. entering both world wars
  • AliasesJeannette Pickering Rankin
  • BornJune 11, 1880
  • DiedMay 18, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician
  • AwardsNational Women's Hall Of Fame