Jeannette Rankin Quotations

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

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

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.

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

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

Killing more people won't help matters.

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

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!

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.