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

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我可能是第一位女性国会议员，但我不会是最后一位。

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

Jeanette Rankin

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

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