"The individual woman is required . . .……" — Jeannette Rankin
"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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Jeannette Rankin
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20 Quotes by Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin has 20 quotes on this site.
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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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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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It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end…
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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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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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