Shirley Chisholm Quotes - Black Woman Who Dared To Be Herself.
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (30 November 1924 – 1 January 2005) was an American politician, educator and author. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms until 1983. On January 23, 1972, she became the first African American candidate for a major party nomination for President of the United States, winning 162 delegates - the closest any woman had ever come to winning the nomination before Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 campaign.
Shirley Chisholm Quotes:
Shirley Chisholm Quotes
1. The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a girl".
― Shirley Chisholm
2. 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
3. Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers — this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?
― Shirley Chisholm
4. When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.
― Shirley Chisholm
5. If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
― Shirley Chisholm
6. In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.
― Shirley Chisholm
7. 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
8. Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. List to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
― Shirley Chisholm
9. From the beginning I felt that there were only two ways to create change for black people in this country — either politically or by open armed revolution. Malcolm defined it succinctly — the ballot or the bullet. Since I believe that human life is uniquely valuable and important, for me the choice had to be the creative use of the ballot. I still believe I was right. I hope America never succeeds in changing my mind.
― Shirley Chisholm
10. To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
― Shirley Chisholm
11. I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
― Shirley Chisholm
12. 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 ...
― Shirley Chisholm
13. The one thing you’ve got going: your one vote.
― Shirley Chisholm
14. I am and always will be a catalyst for change.
― Shirley Chisholm
15. Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
― Shirley Chisholm
16. I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.
― Shirley Chisholm
17. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud; I am not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman and I am equally proud of that. I am the candidate of the people of America. And my presence before you now symbolizes a new era in American political history.
― Shirley Chisholm
18. Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
― Shirley Chisholm
19. At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in poiltics than anywhere else.
― Shirley Chisholm
20. Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.
― Shirley Chisholm
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