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Shirley Chisholm has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
• Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
• At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
• Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
• When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
• There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that…
• The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When…
• Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme…
• I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products…
• My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer…
• Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

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