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
Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.
... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.
To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.