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
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In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.
Of my two "handicaps," being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black
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. It can still happen.
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.
Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.
Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.
Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. List to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.
Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
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.
Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.