Shirley Chisholm Quotes

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

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  Tags in Discrimination

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

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  Topics in Progress

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

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  Topics in Society

  Tags in Talent

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little, Place

• 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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  Tags in Liberals

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

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  Topics in Service

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

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  Tags in Obstacles

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

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  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Measure

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Congress

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

  Shirley Chisholm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Needs, Determination

• 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.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Topics in Movies

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emotional

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

  Shirley Chisholm

  Tags in Ethics

Shirley Chisholm (13)

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

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