American - Politician | November 30, 1924 - January 1, 2005
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm
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We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.
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If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
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I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing.
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I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.
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I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
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I'm finding all over America that people are sick and tired of the tweedle-dee dees and the tweedle-dee dums who constantly flip-flap from one side to another. People are interested in having candidates that are truthful.
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Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
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Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
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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.
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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, the Christian love that it would take.
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