There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else. - Jeannette Rankin
As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
- Jeannette Rankin
We're half the people; we should be half the Congress. - Jeannette Rankin
We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.
I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last. - Jeannette Rankin
I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.
I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close. - Jeannette Rankin
I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. - Jeannette Rankin
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. - Jeannette Rankin
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both. - Jeannette Rankin
Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.
The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition o… - Jeannette Rankin
The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition o…
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. - Jeannette Rankin
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
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