"I don’t measure America by its achievement but……" — Shirley Chisholm
"I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential."
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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 Achievement Quotes
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
— Neil Armstrong
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
— Irving Babbitt
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of…
— Christian Bale
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
— Irving Berlin
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