Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

Shirley Chisholm

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• We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Differences
  • Point
  • Accept

• If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Bad
  • You
  • Differences

• History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Wisdom
  • Differences

• In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Religious
  • Differences

• We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Country
  • Children
  • Gun

• For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Game

• First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Health

• The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Differences
  • Statesmen
  • Posing

• Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Small
  • Winning

• Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Differences
  • Pay
  • Cost

• Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Habit
  • Differences
  • Hearts

• I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Band
  • Happened
  • Accidents

• The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Hands
  • Said
  • Rich

• It's not that much of a difference. Basically, your job is the same as a film director. It's a triangle between creativity, money, and time. But they don't really change. You're ultimately trying to get the most creativity and time with the money that you have.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Money

• The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • May
  • Humans
  • Plans

• We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Happy
  • Mistakes
  • Accidents

• Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • American
  • America
  • Differences

• Like anybody, I like clothes, and I enjoy what I like to wear. We might have a difference in personal outfit choices. Some might not like it. But to judge someone because of their appearance is pretty foolish. If you have time to do that, I suggest you look at yourself in the mirror and spend more time developing yourself. Come on, it's 2013.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Choices

• The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Mistake
  • Differences
  • Terrible

• People are valuable regardless of the color of their skin. You can be open about it and talk about it. You don't have to pretend that you are not different, but you can learn about those differences God didn't say, 'Ooh, I made you brown on accident.' He made them that color on purpose. And if you do not have friendships with other races, then ask God to bring you some. He will.

  

  Nicole C. Mullen
  • God
  • Color
  • Differences

• I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Different
  • Crazy
  • Myself

• To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

  

  Brand Blanshard
  • Think
  • Current
  • Carried

• My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Differences
  • Accidents
  • Layers