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Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.
I am and always will be a catalyst for change.
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.
... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?
Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.
I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.
Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing.
Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.
I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.
Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.
Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.
I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.
I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.
Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.
To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.
Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.
As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.
I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them and say, 'Listen to me.'
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
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.
I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.