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Jeannette Rankin was a 19th-century first woman elected to u.s. congress. Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.”
— Jeannette Rankin
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“I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war”
— Jeannette Rankin
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“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.”
— Jeannette Rankin
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“Men and women are like right and left hands it doesn't make sense not to use both.”
— Jeannette Rankin
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“You take people as far as they will go not as far as you would like them to go.”
— Jeannette Rankin
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“We're half the people we should be half the Congress.”
— Jeannette Rankin
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