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.

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.

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

It will be hard to convince people that their welfare is safe in the hands of a federal government when they feel themselves the victims of unjust sectional discrimination.

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?

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

It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.

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.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.

We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.

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