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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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For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an…
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Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my…
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Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I…
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Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.
— Shirley Chisholm
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Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed…
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