Shirley Chisholm Quotes

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.

In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

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.

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

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

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.

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