Shirley Chisholm

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

— Shirley Chisholm

#comes #loses #morality #profit #seldom

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a girl. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#sexuality

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#inspirational

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

— Shirley Chisholm

#country #determination #else #idealism #more

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

#cases #commission #congress #extreme #hearings

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

— Shirley Chisholm

#ideas #implementing #make #progress #sidelines

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

— Shirley Chisholm

#just #just because #lost #our #skirt

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#america #i #measure #potential

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

#creative #fighter #independent #little #must

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#black #female #handicaps #many #more