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.

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Shirley Chisholm was a 20th-century American politician. Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. Read more on Wikipedia →

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