American - Politician | June 11, 1880 - May 18, 1973
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
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How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?
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We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.
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It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.
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Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will think in terms of human needs, has not been mobilized? Is it not possible that the women of the country have something of value to give the nation at this time?
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The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
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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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If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
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I have nothing left but my integrity.
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We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.
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If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.
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