American - Politician | June 11, 1880 - May 18, 1973
We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.
Jeannette Rankin
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You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.
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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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What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
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Bribes are not offered in such a way that you can prove them, and in order to prove that I didn't accept a bribe, I had to run.
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Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! Go! Go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go.
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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 the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.
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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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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
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It will be hard to convince people that their welfare is safe in the hands of a federal government when they feel themselves the victims of unjust sectional discrimination.
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If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.
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