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
Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. — 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
I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics. — 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
“The most tragic error into which older people can fall is one that is common among educators and politicians. It is to… — 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
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
The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works… — 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
“…My present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States: it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
