"Service is the rent that you pay for…" — Shirley Chisholm

"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."

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

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More Earth Quotes

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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