Jeannette Rankin
Politician
1880-06-11
Quotes by Jeannette Rankin
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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war
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The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
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The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war
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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?
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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.
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Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!
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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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Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.
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What one decides to do in a crisis depends upon one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in a crisis, others make the decision.
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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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