Shirley Chisholm Quotes

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  No se avanza quedándose al margen, lloriqueando y quejándose. Se avanza poniendo en práctica las ideas.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Inspiring, Ideas, African American

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  El servicio es el alquiler que pagas por una habitación en esta tierra.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Inspiring, Earth, Pay

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• When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Black, Want, Firsts

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• Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Leadership, Voice, Lists

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  In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Black, Female, Social Justice

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

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• Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Defeat, Discouragement, Stimulus

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• I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

  Shirley Chisholm

  People, Too Much, Way

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• The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Madre, padre, derechos

  Congressional Record, 91st Cong., 2d Sess, 116, pt. 21: (28028-28029), August 10, 1970.

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• I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Running, Odds, Voice

  "The Good Fight". Book by Shirley Chisholm, 1973.

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• Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Care, Privilege, Health Care

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• Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Heart, Law, Prejudice

  "For the Equal Rights Amendment". Shirley Chisholm's speech in Washington, D.C., www.americanrhetoric.com. August 10, 1970.

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• El racismo es tan universal en este país, tan extendido y arraigado, que es invisible porque es muy normal.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, Racism, Justice

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.147, Take Root Media

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• I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Catalyst For Change, Catalyst

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• I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Men, Black, Discrimination

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• Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Our Society, Skirts, Losing

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Take Root Media

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• Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Revolution, Evolution, Revolutionary

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• I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

  Shirley Chisholm

  América

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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.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Heart, Justice For All, Law

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.106, Take Root Media

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• At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, Determination, Needs

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• I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Thinking, Years, Black

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media

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• When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Integrity, Patriotic, Power

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.124, Take Root Media

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• My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Differences, Justice, Skins

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.148, Take Root Media

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• There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Moving, Racism, United States

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• I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

  Shirley Chisholm

  America, Achievement

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

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• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Deportes, Béisbol, Fútbol

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