Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), the first woman elected to Congress and the only person to vote against the U.S. entering both World War I and World War II, was eighty seven years old when she led 5,000 women in an antiwar march on the U.S. Capitol.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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You know, they say if women ruled the world there would be less wars.
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