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Shirley Chisholm Quotes

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

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Politician Quotes
Category:
American Politician Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 3, 1924
Date of Death:
January 1, 2005
Nationality:
American
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Select Shirley Chisholm Quotations:
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Shirley Chisholm

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

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

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

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


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All Shirley Chisholm Quotations:
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Congress seems drugged and inert most...
I don't measure America by its...
It is not heroin or cocaine...
Of my two handicaps, being female...
Service is the rent that you...
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The liberals in the House strongly...
There is little place in the...
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost...
When morality comes up against profit...
You don't make progress by standing...
 

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