"It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died……" — Jeannette Rankin
"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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Jeannette Rankin
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20 Quotes by Jeannette Rankin
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We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.
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As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
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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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Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .
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The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed…
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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.
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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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I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.
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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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War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
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Killing more people won't help matters.
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If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be…
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