"The minorities have been confined to the city……" — Shirley Chisholm
"The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry."
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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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