Feminism Quotes by Shirley Chisholm

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

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

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

— Shirley Chisholm

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

I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

— Shirley Chisholm

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

— Shirley Chisholm

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

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

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

— Shirley Chisholm

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

— Shirley Chisholm

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

“Following along the path of her role models, Shirley knew that if she waited for permission, she’d never receive her turn.”

— Shirley Chisholm

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

“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

I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

— Shirley Chisholm