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22 Shirley Chisholm Quotes & Sayings
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22 Shirley Chisholm Quotes & Sayings
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Born: November 30, 1924. Died: January 1, 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
Make progress
By standing
The sidelines
Whimpering
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If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
Shirley Chisholm
Give you
A seat
The table
Bring
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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm
Service
The rent
We pay
The privilege
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We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.
Shirley Chisholm
Must reject
The stereotypes
Other hold
Of ourselves
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Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free.
Shirley Chisholm
We start
To fight
The enemies
Own country
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I am, and always will be a catalyst for change.
Shirley Chisholm
A catalyst
For change
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I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo,to give a voice to the people the major candidates were ignoring.
Shirley Chisholm
The presidency
Hopeless odds
To demonstrate
Sheer will
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Don’t listen to those who say YOU CAN’T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
Shirley Chisholm
Don't listen
You can't
Voice inside
I can
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Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws to perpetuate injustice through inaction.
Shirley Chisholm
Laws
Eliminate prejudice
The heart
Human beings
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Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.
Shirley Chisholm
Defeat
The source
Discouragement
A stimulus
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Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.
Shirley Chisholm
Women
Become revolutionary
Be evolution
But revolution
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Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.
Shirley Chisholm
Health
Human right
A privilege
Be purchased
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Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
Shirley Chisholm
Any time
Things appears
Going better
Overlooked something
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At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm
At present
Our country
Women's idealism
Determination
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I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.
Shirley Chisholm
Have never
Cared
Too much
People say
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm
When morality
Comes up
Against profit
Profit loses
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I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.
Shirley Chisholm
Want history
Remember me
Black woman
Be elected
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I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.
Shirley Chisholm
I love
For what
Can become
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I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm
Don't measure
Its achievement
Its potential
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Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else.
Shirley Chisholm
Take away
An accident
Pigmentation
Thin layer
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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
Little place
Political scheme
An independent
Creative personality
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Shirley Chisholm
Lose faith
In humanity
An ocean
Few drops
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Shirley Chisholm Quotes & Sayings