All Shirley Chisholm Quotes
- You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. African American
- The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. Begins
- Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth. Earth
- At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. Anywhere
- Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. Amount
- When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. Capitalism
- There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay… Anyone
- The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time… Civil
- Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint… Appoint
- I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time… Antiwhite
- My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer… Accident
- Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal. Country
- It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television… Addict
- The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry. Been
- When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits… Always Known
- Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster. Bold
- The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding… Black
- My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn’t always discuss for reasons… All
- Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the… Believe
- I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered. Chisholm