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

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

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

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.

Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.