11 Quotes & Sayings By Jeannette Rankin

Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to the United States Congress, serving from 1915-1919. She was also the first woman to vote in a federal election. She was known for her strong advocacy of women's rights, social security, and veterans' benefits, as well as her staunch opposition to U.S. involvement in World War I Read more

She also opposed Prohibition, but her stance on this issue was unpopular among some of her constituents. Her efforts were instrumental in winning women suffrage in Washington state in 1918. Rankin left Congress after one term to run for governor of Washington state, but lost.

Her last vote on Capitol Hill was on March 23, 1919, the first day that women were allowed to vote in federal elections.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist...
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The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. Jeannette Rankin
I want to stand by my country, but I cannot...
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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war Jeannette Rankin
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We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun. Jeannette Rankin
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You take people as far as they will go not as far as you would like them to go. Jeannette Rankin
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We're half the people we should be half the Congress. Jeannette Rankin
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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
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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin
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Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both. Jeannette Rankin
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The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War. Jeannette Rankin
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Men and women are like right and left hands it doesn't make sense not to use both. Jeannette Rankin