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
Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn’t always… — 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
“Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. Their first rule is “don’t rock the boat.” If someone makes trouble… — 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
