Author: Jeannette Rankin

Quotes

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

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

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

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

- 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

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

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

If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.

If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.

- 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

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