Jeanette Rankin: "I may be the first woman member of…"

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Puede que sea la primera mujer miembro del Congreso pero no seré la última.

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“As an adherent of nonviolence, I cannot consistently support war.”

Jeanette Rankin

“Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.”

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”

“We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.”

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