Shirley Chisholm Famous Quotes | Shirley Anita Chisholm was born on November 3, 1924, in New York. She was a very famous American politician, educator, and author. She also helped and inspired many black Americans throughout her life.
Shirley Chisholm completed college studies in 1946, and after that, she worked as a teacher in Harlem.
From 1953 to 1959, she was also the director of Friends Day Nursery in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
She was a black American, and she knew how black people were treated at that time. She was the first black woman to win an election in the United States Congress.
Not only this, she was the first African-American candidate to be nominated for the President of America.
Shirley Chisholm saw a lot of progress and many difficulties in his life. She helped and motivated many black people. Because of her, many black women got inspiration.
Unfortunately, on January 1, 2005, Shirley Chisholm died due to a stroke.
Remembering him in this article, read some of his inspirational quotes.
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“I am and always will be a catalyst for change.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“Don’t list to those who say YOU CAN’T. List to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.”
– Shirley Chisholm
”You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
– Shirley Chisholm
”If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
– Shirley Chisholm
”Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.”
– Shirley Chisholm
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– Shirley Chisholm
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– Shirley Chisholm
”I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.”
– Shirley Chisholm
”Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.”
– Shirley Chisholm
”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
”As I see it, the top administrators of colleges and universities must take an active role in dealing with racism on campus today. I’ve seen campuses festering with racism, and some administrators closing their eyes to it. They just hope it will go away, but it doesn’t. It gets worse.”
– Shirley Chisholm
”You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
– Shirley Chisholm
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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
”I am, and always will be a catalyst for change.”
– Shirley Chisholm
”Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“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. What I hope most is that now there will be others who will feel themselves as capable of running for high political office as any wealthy, good-looking white male.”
– Shirley Chisholm
”Don’t listen to those who say YOU CAN’T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“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
“My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers – a great pity, on both counts.”
– Shirley Chisholm
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“We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.”
– 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.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“We have been so patient and loyal … and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“I’d like them to say that had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live…They won’t become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“I’m looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I’m doing.”
– 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
“We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.”
– Shirley Chisholm
shirley chisholm quotes about discrimination
“George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida, and he said to the people, ‘If you all can’t vote for me, don’t vote for those oval-headed lizards. Vote for !’ And that crashed my votes, because they thought that I was in league with him to get votes.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.”
– 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
“My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn’t always discuss for reasons of political expediency.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the woman’s movement of this country, although I am a woman and I am equally proud of that.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”
– Shirley Chisholm
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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
“I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“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
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