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Shirley Chisholm has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
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There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that…
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The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When…
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Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme…
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I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products…
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My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer…
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Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
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But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even…
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The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there…
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I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make…
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Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International…
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Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married…
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I…
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How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want…
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and…
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The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim will also be a less wasteful…
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