At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. -Shirley Chisholm

 

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.


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

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

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

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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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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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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.

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