"Be as bold as the first man or…" — Shirley Chisholm
"Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster."
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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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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…
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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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More Bold Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
— Diane Ackerman
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We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe…
— Michele Bachmann
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
— Francis Bacon
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In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.
— Bob Beauprez
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
— Mayim Bialik
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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
— Aeschylus
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I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
— Cate Blanchett
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
— Mary J. Blige
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't…
— Alan Alda
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