Shirley Chisholm Quotes

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm

Progress, Ideas, Standing

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Shirley Chisholm

Equality, Girl, Emotional

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm

Service, Earth, Pay

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm

Society, Lost, Talent

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm

Against, Morality, Seldom

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm

Politics, Women, Country

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

Time, Through, Two

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

Time, Problem, Idea

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm

Black, Two, Path

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

Political, Place, Creative

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm

America, Potential, Measure

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: November 3, 1924

Died: January 1, 2005

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