Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

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• When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

  

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• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

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• Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

  

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• If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

  

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• The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

  

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• I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

  

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• As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • World
  • Political
  • Prejudice