All Jeannette Rankin Quotes
- We're half the people; we should be half the Congress. Congress
- As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else. Anyone
- Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both. Both
- Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . . Based
- The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her… Accept
- I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. Cannot Vote
- The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. Barrage
- I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last. Congress
- 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… American
- Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy. Cannot Save
- War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. Beings
- Killing more people won't help matters. Help
- If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier. All
- I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close. Close
- Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go! Action
- You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Earthquake
- 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
- You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. Far
- 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… Beings
- There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. Codified