Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Pickering Rankinwas the first woman to hold federal office in the United States when, in 1916, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by the state of Montana. She won a second House term 24 years later, in 1940...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 June 1880
CityMissoula, MT
CountryUnited States of America
peace military war
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
race democracy use
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
peace war common-sense
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.
lasts firsts may
I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.
peace philosophy decision
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.
peace people
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
peace years suffrage
I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.