Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers - this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?

Shirley Chisholm

• Black
• Fighting
• Brother
• Planning
• Pregnancy
• Genocide

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• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

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• Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

  

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• Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

  

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• When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

  

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• I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

  

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• Everyone, it's okay to say the word 'bitcoin' and acknowledge that it is the actual platform that is driving this innovation that we're all building on. It's also okay to say 'the bitcoin blockchain,' or 'the blockchain,' if you're afraid that people will think you're weird.

  

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• 'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

  

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• A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley. There's a lot of bluegrass intertwined with country music.

  

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• Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

  

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• So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

  

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• Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers - this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Black
  • Fighting
  • Brother