I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I'm finding all over America that people are sick and tired of the tweedle-dee dees and the tweedle-dee dums who constantly flip-flap… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo… to give… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida,… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system,… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology.… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
“Following along the path of her role models, Shirley knew that if she waited for permission, she’d never receive her turn.” — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
“The most tragic error into which older people can fall is one that is common among educators and politicians. It is to use youth… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share
