Shirley Chisholm Quotes

• At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

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• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.”

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• Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time… its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

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• I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

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• There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

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• Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

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• Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

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• Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

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• The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

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• You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

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• In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing – antihumanism.

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• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

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• When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

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Shirley Chisholm (13)

Birth:	30th November, 1924
Death:	1st January, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Educator, Politician

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