The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
Jeannette RankinWhat 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 RankinMen are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.
Jeannette RankinI worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.
Jeannette RankinThe individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.
Jeannette Rankin