Tag: Shirley Chisholm
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I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the woman’s movement of this country, although I am a woman and I am equally proud of that.
Shirley Chisholm
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America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.
Shirley Chisholm
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm
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I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.
Shirley Chisholm
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At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm
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I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
Shirley Chisholm
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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.
Shirley Chisholm
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We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.
Shirley Chisholm
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I am the people’s politician. If the day should ever come when the people can’t save me, I’ll know I’m finished.
Shirley Chisholm
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If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
Shirley Chisholm