Jeannette Rankin Quotes

• As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

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• You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

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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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• 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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• Killing more people won’t help matters.

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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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• 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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• You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

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• 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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• You can no more win a war that you can win an earthquake.

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• Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn’t make sense not to use both.: it doesn’t make sense not to use both.

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Jeannette Rankin (13)

Birth:	11th June, 1880
Death:	18th May, 1973
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Social Worker

About

Jeannette Pickering Rankin was born in Missoula, Montana, USA. She was an American Republican politician and social worker. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by the state of Montana in 1916, and again in 1940. She was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. She championed the causes of gender equality and civil rights throughout a career that spanned more than six decades. She earned a BS degree in Biology from the University of Montana in 1902. At the age of 27, she moved to San Francisco to take a job in social work. She attended the University of Washington and became involved in the women's suffrage movement. She helped organize the New York Women's Suffrage Party and worked as a lobbyist for the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

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