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Shirley Chisholm

American Politician

Born: Nov 30, 1924

Died: Jan 1, 2005

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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. Shirley Chisholm

You Progress Complaining Sidelines Implementing Ideas Make Standing

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm

You Folding Table Give Chair Seat Bring

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth. Shirley Chisholm

Service You Pay Earth Rent Room

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves. Shirley Chisholm

Others Those Ourselves Must Only Stereotypes Also Us Reject

Of course 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

Injustice Will Our Enshrined Laws No Reason Through Allow Course Continue Perpetuate Hearts Human Human Beings Inaction Prejudice Reason Beings Eliminate

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. Shirley Chisholm

I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America. Shirley Chisholm

Me History Change Woman Remember Black Made First Presidency Herself States Dared Remember Me Catalyst Remembered Bid America Want Century Who Lived United United States

America is composed of all kinds of people - part of the difficulty in our nation today is due to the fact that we are not utilising the abilities and the talents of other brown and black peoples and females that have something to bring to the creativity and the rejuvenation and the revitalisation of this country. Shirley Chisholm

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. Shirley Chisholm

Doctor Equality Girl Says Sexual Emotional Stereotyping Females Begins Psychological

I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing. Shirley Chisholm

Man Looking Approval Earth Doing Walking

I'm finding all over America that people are sick and tired of the tweedle-dee dees and the tweedle-dee dums who constantly flip-flap from one side to another. People are interested in having candidates that are truthful. Shirley Chisholm

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I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. Shirley Chisholm

Achievement Potential America Measure

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. Shirley Chisholm

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I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start. Shirley Chisholm

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The fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board - or a member of the House - does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. Basically, these are that she thinks she can do the job, and she wants to try. Shirley Chisholm

Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them. Shirley Chisholm

Time Legal Free Past Every Society Further Relic Sexes About Physiology Instance Generations Almost Between Discrimination Psychology Them Sweep Views Beliefs Away Founded Set

George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida, and he said to the people, 'If you all can't vote for me, don't vote for those oval-headed lizards. Vote for Shirley Chisholm!' And that crashed my votes, because they thought that I was in league with him to get votes. Shirley Chisholm

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I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered. Shirley Chisholm

Say Guts Had Remembered Like How Shirley Them

Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I'm actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people. Shirley Chisholm

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