Author: Jeannette Rankin

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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

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

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

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

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

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

- Jeannette Rankin

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.

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

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

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

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

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