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You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
There can be no compromise with war.
I have nothing left but my integrity.
Killing more people won't help matters.
We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.
I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.
Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.
Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .
The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
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.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.
Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!
Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! Go! Go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go.
We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.
Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.
Bribes are not offered in such a way that you can prove them, and in order to prove that I didn't accept a bribe, I had to run.
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.
How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?
It will be hard to convince people that their welfare is safe in the hands of a federal government when they feel themselves the victims of unjust sectional discrimination.
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.
It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.
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.
The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.
It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.
Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will think in terms of human needs, has not been mobilized? Is it not possible that the women of the country have something of value to give the nation at this time?
The 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.
