Quotes By 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

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.