"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes……" — Shirley Chisholm

"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality."

— Shirley Chisholm

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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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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious… — Michael Badnarik
I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and… — Anthony Bourdain
An addict never stops growing. Stupider. — William S. Burroughs
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong… — William S. Burroughs
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. — Emile M. Cioran
I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in… — Kurt Cobain
One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict. — George Carlin
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . .… — Eugene H. Peterson
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? — Clifford Stoll
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh… — Shirley Chisholm
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first… — Jean Cocteau
I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never… — Kelly Osbourne

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