Shirley Chisholm Quotes
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Progress, Ideas, Complaining)
"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Society, Talent)
"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."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Personality)
"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."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Time, Civil rights, Conflict, Liberals, Will)
"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl."
- Shirley Chisholm
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Earth, Service)
"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Being, Obstacles)
"I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Achievement, America, Measure, Potential)
"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."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Time, Idea, Congress, Extreme, Meeting)
"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Politics, Women, Determination, Country, Idealism, Needs, Present)