"The difference between de jure and de facto……" — Shirley Chisholm
"The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians."
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Shirley Chisholm
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38 Quotes by Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm has 38 quotes on this site.
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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
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There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who…
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The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights…
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Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or,…
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I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They…
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My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a…
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Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also…
— Aristotle
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
— Bashar al-Assad
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We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
— Gerry Adams
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The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended…
— Gerry Adams
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The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive…
— Gerry Adams
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My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
— Roseanne Barr
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements,…
— Xavier Becerra
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will…
— Sitting Bull
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
— Edmund Burke
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over,…
— Lord Byron
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