Reported in Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color (1973) by Walter B. Hoard, p. 36.
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Shirley Chisholm: Frasi in inglese
“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 problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Origine: Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 104.
For the Equal Rights Amendment (10 August 1970).
Contesto: The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers — a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”
Origine: Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 108.
“I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.”
Origine: Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 175.
Origine: Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 160.
Origine: Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 37.
“Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.”
Reported in "Shirley Chisholm Kicks Off Campaign for U.S. Presidency" by Ronald E. Kisner, Jet, Vol. 41, no. 20 (Feb. 1972), p. 12.
