As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
Jeannette Rankin Quotes
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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| 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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