Jeannette Rankin Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Jeannette Rankin:

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
~Jeannette Rankin


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Killing more people won't help matters.
~Jeannette Rankin


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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jeannette-rankin-quotes/#303a1cdf

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jeannette-rankin-quotes/#543631da

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.
~Jeannette Rankin


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jeannette-rankin-quotes/#14b25b6c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jeannette-rankin-quotes/#51ec9641

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jeannette-rankin-quotes/#fb1e2ebc

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
~Jeannette Rankin


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jeannette-rankin-quotes/#3d8bdb18

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jeannette-rankin-quotes/#0f73203d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jeannette-rankin-quotes/#2ca4cb5c

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.
~Jeannette Rankin


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jeannette-rankin-quotes/#e03fd993

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jeannette-rankin-quotes/#7eb4c3c4

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
~Jeannette Rankin


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jeannette-rankin-quotes/#ba40495d

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