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Shirley Chisholm
American
Politician
About the author
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm,
American
Politician
#Morality
#Profit
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm,
American
Politician
#Ideas
#Progress
#Complaining
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm,
American
Politician
#Society
#Talent
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,
American
Politician
#Personality
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,
American
Politician
#Time
#Will
#Conflict
#Civil rights
#Liberals
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Shirley Chisholm,
American
Politician
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm,
American
Politician
#Earth
#Service
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm,
American
Politician
#Being
#Obstacles
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm,
American
Politician
#America
#Achievement
#Potential
#Measure
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Shirley Chisholm,
American
Politician
#Time
#Idea
#Congress
#Meeting
#Extreme
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm,
American
Politician
#Country
#Needs
#Present
#Determination
#Women
#Politics
#Idealism