Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. Shirley Chisholm More Quotes by Shirley Chisholm More Quotes From Shirley Chisholm Rhetoric never won a revolution yet. Shirley Chisholm rhetoric revolution It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. Shirley Chisholm baseball football sports When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. Shirley Chisholm patriotic power integrity My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency. Shirley Chisholm political kind mouths I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people... Shirley Chisholm country america people Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them. Shirley Chisholm political ignorance home As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people. Shirley Chisholm powerful doe people There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice. Shirley Chisholm united-states racism moving When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9). Shirley Chisholm hypocrite believe country I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free. Shirley Chisholm black years thinking 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 hearing problem ideas That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free. Shirley Chisholm black years thinking Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other. Shirley Chisholm racism truth people That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions. Shirley Chisholm decision soldier country Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster. Shirley Chisholm oysters men firsts Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world. Shirley Chisholm congress actors world 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 democracy men believe ... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice. Shirley Chisholm prisoner prejudice racism 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 prejudice black political As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. Shirley Chisholm black mother father
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