Quotes by Shirley Chisholm

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Politician · American · 1924–2005

American politician (1924–2005)

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“I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practition...”

— Shirley Chisholm

“Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. Even when the problems it ignores build up to crises and erupt in strikes, riots, and demonstrations, it has not moved. Its idea of meeting a prob...”

— Shirley Chisholm

“The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealer...”

— Shirley Chisholm

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

— Shirley Chisholm

“There was one all-black student group, the Harriet Tubman Society. Some upperclassmen had started it, about a year before I joined it in my sophomore year. There I first heard people other than my ...”

— Shirley Chisholm