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Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.
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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Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.
Shirley Chisholm -
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.
Shirley Chisholm -
I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.
Shirley Chisholm -
Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
Shirley Chisholm -
I am and always will be a catalyst for change.
Shirley Chisholm -
Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.
Shirley Chisholm
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I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.
Shirley Chisholm -
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 -
I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.
Shirley Chisholm -
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 -
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?
Shirley Chisholm -
I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm