Jeannette Rankin Professions : U.S. Congressperson Born : June 11, 1880 Died : May 18, 1973 Browse All Authors Top 34 quotes by Jeannette Rankin If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier. Jeannette Rankin nasty ifs would-be You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin military war peace The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition. Jeannette Rankin respect independent self Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both. Jeannette Rankin left-hand men hands I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last. Jeannette Rankin lasts may firsts We're half the people; we should be half the Congress. Jeannette Rankin diversity justice people Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute. Jeannette Rankin mad gun men The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. Jeannette Rankin patriotic war peace The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote. Jeannette Rankin movement philosophy people 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. Jeannette Rankin ubuntu war peace Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go! Jeannette Rankin differences opportunity firsts I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close. Jeannette Rankin suffrage peace years Killing more people won't help matters. Jeannette Rankin matter helping people You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. Jeannette Rankin leadership peace people Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . . Jeannette Rankin women rights home There can be no compromise with war. Jeannette Rankin no-compromise compromise 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. Jeannette Rankin ubuntu philosophy peace War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. Jeannette Rankin scales war enemy Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy. Jeannette Rankin democracy race use 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 jail boys war Similar Authors Heather Wilson us-congressperson Edward Keating us-congressperson Lee H. Hamilton us-congressperson Mark Foley us-congressperson Katherine Harris us-congressperson Josiah Bailey us-congressperson All Authors
