Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholmwas an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to the United States Congress, and represented New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 November 1924
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Shirley Chisholm quotes about
We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial 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.
I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.
Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers - this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?
To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?
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.
Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.