Jeannette Rankin
- Jeanette Rankin
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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.
(Congressional speech, 1917)
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As a woman, I can't go to war, and I refuse
to send anyone else.
(Congressional speech, 1941)
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Killing more people won't help matters. (1941, after Pearl Harbor)
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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; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. [1929]
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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. [1967]
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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.
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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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We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.
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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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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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The individual woman is required . . . a
thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby
rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else
follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the
wreckage of her good disposition.
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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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You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
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• Each quotation
page in this collection and the entire collection are © Jone Johnson Lewis
1997-2004. This is an informal collection -- if you need citations for the
original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the
quotes.
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