Jeannette Rankin Quotes
We could have peace in one year if women were organized.
First woman elected to Congress. She voted against the declaration of war in WWI and was the only member of Congress to vote against war in WWII.
Jeannette Rankin, 1880-1973, U. S. Congresswoman (Republican, MT), Quoted in Diana Star Helmer, Women Suffragists
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Jinnah was a modern Islamist who saw the role of females in a modern context. He, like the Indian Hindu leaders were in a sense products of the West and Western government and education. He would be very surprised that in his Pakistan men can murder their female relatives who they believe have dishonored the family, or that women would not be educated in the Madrassas, or that authorities could sentence a female relative of a man deemed guilty of seduction to be gang raped, but that is what happens in modern Pakistan. Jinnah and many of the early leaders believed that their new government could modernize Islam but the control and influence went the other way. Pakistan became a religiously dominated autocracy rather than the democracy that Jinnah foresaw.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
The suffragette movement was split by WWI and the issue of pacicism. See {621265} for the pro war factional view.
Her audiences were all familiar with the Adam & Eve Biblical narration.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940.
