"At present, our country needs women's idealism and……" — Shirley Chisholm
"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
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Shirley Chisholm
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38 Quotes by Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm has 38 quotes on this site.
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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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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…
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The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights…
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Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or,…
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I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They…
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My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a…
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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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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh…
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I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss…
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
— Isaac Asimov
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
— Francis of Assisi
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes…
— Russell Baker
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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
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My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go…
— John Barrymore
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle,…
— Lewis Black
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not…
— Tony Blair
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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even…
— Mary J. Blige
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