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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
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm
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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.
Shirley Chisholm
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Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm
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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
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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm
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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm
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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.
Shirley Chisholm
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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm
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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
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I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
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Equality
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