Shirley Chisholm Quotes

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

I don’t measure America by its achievement, I measure it by its potential.

I am, was, and always will be a catalyst for change.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, ‘It’s a girl.’

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

The greatest crime in a democracy is not voting. It is apathy.

Dare to be different.

I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am Black and proud. I am not the candidate of the women’s movement of this country, although I am a woman and equally proud of that.

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time… its collective spirit broken by some strange and paralyzing spell.

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

I was the first American Negro woman to be elected to Congress.

Shirley Chisholm Quotes part 2

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be a catalyst of change.

In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.

I am not going to stay on the outside looking in.

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, ‘It’s a girl.’

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

The greatest crime in a democracy is not voting. It is apathy.

I don’t campaign telling people: ‘Vote for me, I’m a woman.’

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

I am, was, and always will be a catalyst for change.

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

The only thing I could do was to stir things up.

I suffer no illusions about what little I accomplished in the political arena.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn’t always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable.

Dare to be different.

I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am Black and proud. I am not the candidate of the women’s movement of this country, although I am a woman and equally proud of that.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am Black and proud. I am not the candidate of the women’s movement of this country, although I am a woman and equally proud of that.

I don’t campaign telling people: ‘Vote for me, I’m a woman.’

In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.