"I was the first American citizen to be……" — Shirley Chisholm
"I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free."
—
Shirley Chisholm
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
38 Quotes by Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm has 38 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…
-
The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights…
-
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or,…
-
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They…
-
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a…
-
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
See all 38 quotes by Shirley Chisholm »