Best Shirley Chisholm Quotes
- I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of… America
- I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by… American
- One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she… Anti
- We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet… All
- I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential. Achievement
- Rhetoric never won a revolution yet. Inspirational
- It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. Addict
- In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. All
- I am and always will be a catalyst for change. Catalyst
- Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. List to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN. Inside
- Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political… Americans
- Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. Black
- In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism. All