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Zitat des Tages von Jeannette Rankin:

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

I have nothing left but my integrity.

Jeannette Rankin

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

Jeannette Rankin

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

Jeannette Rankin

How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?

Jeannette Rankin

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

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

Jeannette Rankin

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

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

Jeannette Rankin

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

Jeannette Rankin

The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

Jeannette Rankin

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

Jeannette Rankin

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

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

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

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

Jeannette Rankin

We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.

Jeannette Rankin