"Rhetoric never won a revolution yet." — Shirley Chisholm

"Rhetoric never won a revolution yet."

— 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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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