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Shirley Chisholm [1924-2005] American
Rank: 101
Politician, American Politician


Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to the United States Congress, and she represented New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983.

Equality, Politics, Society, Time, Women



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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
101
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
102
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. Equality
103
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. Time
104
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. Society
105
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. Politics, Women
106
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.
107
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
108
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
109
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.
110
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
111

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