Shirley Chisholm

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

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

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

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

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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 (1924-2005)

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“The most tragic error into which older people can fall is one that is common among educators and politicians. It is to use youth as scapegoats for the sins of their elders.”

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

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“Liberty and justice for all" were beautiful words, but the ugly fact was that liberty and justice were only for white males.”

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

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

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

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

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

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

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

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

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

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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 (1924-2005)

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"Rhetoric never won a revolution yet."

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

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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 commission."

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

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"Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world."

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

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

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

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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."

― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)