Author: Jeannette Rankin

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The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

- Jeannette Rankin

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?

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?

- Jeannette Rankin

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

- Jeannette Rankin

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

- Jeannette Rankin

If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.

If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.

- Jeannette Rankin

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

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

- Jeannette Rankin

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

- Jeannette Rankin

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

- Jeannette Rankin

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.

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.

- Jeannette Rankin

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