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Shirley Chisholm Quotes

«Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.»
«In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.»
«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.»
«At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.»
«Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.»
Author: Shirley Chisholm (Politician) | Keywords: rent
«Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt»
Author: Shirley Chisholm (Politician) | About: Talent | Keywords: amounts, skirt, tremendous
«The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl»
«I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential»
«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.»
Author: Shirley Chisholm (Politician) | Keywords: fighter, scheme