Jeannette Rankin Quotes
If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.
Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .
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.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
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.
Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.
The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
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.
We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun.
