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Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. ...Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a com...
By Shirley Chisholm
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.
By Shirley Chisholm
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
By Shirley Chisholm
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.
By Shirley Chisholm
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.
By Shirley Chisholm
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'
By Shirley Chisholm
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says 'It's a girl.'
By Shirley Chisholm