Nature of man 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