Action Quote by Jeannette Rankin

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

— Jeannette Rankin

Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will think in…

— Jeannette Rankin

The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue…

— Jeannette Rankin

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

— Jeannette Rankin

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

— Jeannette Rankin

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

— Jeannette Rankin

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

— Jeannette Rankin

There can be no compromise with war.

— Jeannette Rankin

“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…

— Jeannette Rankin

If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.

— Jeannette Rankin

It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come…

— Jeannette Rankin

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

— Jeannette Rankin