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Killing more people won't help matters.
Jeannette Rankin
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Jeannette Rankin
Age: 92 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 11
Died: 1973
Died: May 18
Feminist
Pacifist
Peace Activist
Politician
Social Worker
Suffragette
Missoula
Montana
Jeannette Pickering Rankin
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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.
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If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
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Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.
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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.
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You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
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