Classic Quotes by Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973) first female US Representative
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.
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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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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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As a woman, I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
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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.
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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.
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If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
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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.
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Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
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