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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war


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



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I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.



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



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



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The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.



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Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.



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Killing more people won't help matters.



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I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.



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Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!





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But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.



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