16 Quotations by Shirley Chisholm
- 1. At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anyw ...
- 2. Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearin ...
- 3. I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist ...
- 4. I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
- 5. In the end, anti black, anti female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thin ...
- 6. It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. ...
- 7. Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and the futility in whi ...
- 8. My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a ...
- 9. Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
- 10. One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon ...
- 11. Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because i ...
- 12. Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
- 13. The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's ...
- 14. There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, fo ...
- 15. We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can ...
- 16. You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress ...
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