Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm quotes Born: 11/30/1924 Died: 01/01/2005 Country: usa

• We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before. It can still happen. (Shirley Chisholm) [chance/nation/basis/respect]
• Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. (Shirley Chisholm) [being/more/path/being]
• Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. (Shirley Chisholm) [service]
• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. (Shirley Chisholm) [reality/more/television/more]
• At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. (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)
• I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. (Shirley Chisholm)
• Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth. (Shirley Chisholm)
• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. (Shirley Chisholm)
• 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. (Shirley Chisholm)
• 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. (Shirley Chisholm)
• Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. (Shirley Chisholm)
• When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. (Shirley Chisholm)
• You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. (Shirley Chisholm)

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