45 Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

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.

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.

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.

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.