Quotes of Shirley Chisholm - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before… ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ In the end, anti black, anti female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: antihumanism. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before… ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ 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

“ I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ 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

“ The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ In the end, anti black, anti female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: antihumanism. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ 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

“ Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ 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

“ 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
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