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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 Shirley Chisholm!' And that crashed my votes, because they thought that I was in league with him to get votes.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course 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.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020