Shirley Chisholm Quotes

Shirley Chisholm Quotes.

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.
Shirley Chisholm
Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.
Shirley Chisholm
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, ‘It’s a girl.’
Shirley Chisholm
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl.
Shirley Chisholm
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
Shirley Chisholm
Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them and say, ‘Listen to me.’
Shirley Chisholm
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
There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.
Shirley Chisholm
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
I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.
Shirley Chisholm
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.
Shirley Chisholm
Don’t list to those who say YOU CAN’T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
Shirley Chisholm
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm
I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.
Shirley Chisholm
I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.
Shirley Chisholm
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm

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