"I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm……" — Shirley Chisholm
"I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered."
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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.
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