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Jeannette Rankin
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“Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.”
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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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“As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.”
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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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“I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.”
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“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
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“Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.”
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“We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.”
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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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“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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“Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.”
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“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.”
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“Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!”
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“How can this Congress, which voted for war to make the world safe for democracy not allow women this small measure of democracy.”
Jeannette Rankin, U.S. politician, pacifist, suffragist
(1880 - 1973)
Full name: Jeannette Pickering Rankin.