Shirley Chisholm Quotes

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
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.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.
America is composed of all kinds of people - part of the difficulty in our nation today is due to the fact that we are not utilising the abilities and the talents of other brown and black peoples and females that have something to bring to the creativity and the rejuvenation and the revitalisation of this country.
George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida, and he said to the people, 'If you all can't vote for me, don't vote for those oval-headed lizards. Vote for Shirley Chisholm!' And that crashed my votes, because they thought that I was in league with him to get votes.
I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the woman's movement of this country, although I am a woman and I am equally proud of that.
I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.
I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.
I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.
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Shirley Chisholm
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30 November, 1924
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01 January, 2005
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