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Shirley Chisholm

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

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"

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"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."

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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

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"Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom."

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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

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"More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed."

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"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."

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"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."

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"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."

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Shirley Chisholm
"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."

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

Politics

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

Progress

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

Being

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Shirley Chisholm
"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."

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Shirley Chisholm
"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."

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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."

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Shirley Chisholm
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."

Earth

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

Society

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

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