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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.
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.
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won't be the last.
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.
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
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.
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.
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
There can be no compromise with war.
Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.