Shirley Chisholm Quotes - Page 2

• No es la heroína o la cocaína lo que convierte a una persona en adicta, es la necesidad de escapar de una dura realidad. En este país hay más adictos a la televisión, más adictos al béisbol y al fútbol, más adictos al cine y, desde luego, más adictos al alcohol que adictos a los estupefacientes.

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  Deportes, Béisbol, Fútbol

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• Sé tan audaz como el primer hombre o [mujer] que coma una ostra.

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  Men, Oysters, Firsts

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• Dios mío, ¿qué queremos? ¿Qué quiere cualquier ser humano? Quitamos un accidente de pigmentación de una fina capa de nuestra piel exterior y no hay diferencia entre yo y cualquier otra persona. Lo único que queremos es que esa diferencia trivial no suponga ninguna diferencia.

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  Differences, Justice, Skins

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

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• We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.

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  Loyal, Want, Patient

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• 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.

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  Powerful, People, Doe

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

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

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  America, Achievement

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

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• As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

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  Madre, Padre, Negro

  Shirley Chisholm's remarks for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), August 10, 1970.

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• La mayoría de los estadounidenses nunca han visto la ignorancia, la degradación, el hambre, la enfermedad y la futilidad en la que viven muchos otros estadounidenses... No se involucrarán en el cambio económico o político hasta que algo les haga comprender la gravedad de la situación.

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  Home, Ignorance, Political

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• Los estereotipos emocionales, sexuales y psicológicos de las mujeres comienzan cuando el médico dice: "Es una niña".

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  Girl, Equality, Emotional

  "Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color" by Walter B. Hoard, (p. 36), 1973.

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• El Congreso parece drogado e inerte la mayor parte del tiempo... su idea de resolver un problema es celebrar audiencias o, en casos extremos, nombrar una comisión.

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  Ideas, Hearing, Problem

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.120, Take Root Media

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• Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

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  Believe, Men, Democracy

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.119, Take Root Media

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• I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

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  País, América, Gente

  "African-American and Female in One Candidate". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2008.

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• Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

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  Pasado por alto

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• Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

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  Revolution, Rhetoric

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• Mi mayor baza política, que los políticos profesionales temen, es mi boca, de la que salen todo tipo de cosas de las que uno no siempre debería hablar por razones de conveniencia política.

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  Political, Mouths, Kind

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• El racismo impide que las personas que están siendo manejadas descubran la verdad a través del contacto entre ellas.

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  Truth, Racism, People

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

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• 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 would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

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  Thinking, Years, Black

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

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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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  Rights, Two, House

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

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• As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

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  Political, Black, Prejudice

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• There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

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  Independent, Personality, Creative

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Take Root Media

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• When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).

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  Country, Believe, Hypocrite

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• ... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

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  Racism, Prejudice, Prisoner

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.151, Take Root Media

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• Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

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  Powerful, Organization, Political

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.53, Take Root Media

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• La diferencia entre la segregación de iure y de facto es la diferencia entre el fanatismo abierto y directo y el tipo de farsa que funciona a través de acuerdos no escritos entre comerciantes de bienes raíces, funcionarios escolares y políticos locales.

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  Real, School, Agreement

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.172, Take Root Media

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• 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.

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  Class, Justice, Together

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