Shirley Chisholm Quotes
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Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.
— Shirley Chisholm
We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.
— Shirley Chisholm
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
— Shirley Chisholm
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
— Shirley Chisholm
I am and always will be a catalyst for change.
— Shirley Chisholm
All Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.
— Shirley Chisholm
I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.
— Shirley Chisholm
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
— Shirley Chisholm
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
— Shirley Chisholm
I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black ... men are men.
— Shirley Chisholm
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Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.
— Donna Brazile
We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.
— Shirley Chisholm
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
— Shirley Chisholm
If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
— Shirley Chisholm
Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.
— Shirley Chisholm
I have never cared too much what people way. What I am interested in is what they do.
— Shirley Chisholm
It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a fact.
— Shirley Chisholm
That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.
— Shirley Chisholm
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
— Shirley Chisholm
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
— Shirley Chisholm
Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.
— Shirley Chisholm
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
— Shirley Chisholm
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
— Shirley Chisholm
Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. List to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
— Shirley Chisholm
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.
— Shirley Chisholm
I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.
— Shirley Chisholm
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
— Shirley Chisholm
As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity on both counts.
— Shirley Chisholm
Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.
— Shirley Chisholm
Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.
— Shirley Chisholm
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 ...
— Shirley Chisholm
The one thing you've got going: your one vote.
— Shirley Chisholm
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
— Shirley Chisholm
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.
— Shirley Chisholm
To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
— Shirley Chisholm
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.
— Shirley Chisholm
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
— Shirley Chisholm
Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
— Shirley Chisholm