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

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• Shirley Chisholm:

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

• Shirley Chisholm:

  I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote

• Shirley Chisholm:

  I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run

• Shirley Chisholm:

  I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of t

• Shirley Chisholm:

  George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida,

• Shirley Chisholm:

  Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the

• Shirley Chisholm:

  Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block an

• Shirley Chisholm:

  I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.

• Shirley Chisholm:

  America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What

• Shirley Chisholm:

  That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman