Jeannette Rankin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#War #Winning #Earthquakes
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#Race #Democracy #Use
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

#Peace #War #Common Sense
I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I wonâ€™t be the last.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#May #Lasts #Firsts
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#War #Patriotic #Deceit
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
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#Peace #People
Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#Men #Hands #Left Hand
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

#Philosophy #People #Movement
Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!
-- Jeannette Rankin

#Opportunity #Differences #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

#Peace #Years #Suffrage
If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#Would Be #Nasty
Killing more people won't help matters.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#People #Matter #Helping
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#War #Enemy #Scales
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

#Peace #Philosophy #Decision
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

#War #Boys #Jail
We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#People #Justice #Half
I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#Country #War #Personality
As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#War #Justice #Social Justice
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .
-- Jeannette Rankin

#Home #Rights #Democracy
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

#Gun #Men #Mad

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