"You take people as far as they will……" — Jeannette Rankin
"You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go."
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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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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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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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