When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
—Shirley Chisholm
In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing – antihumanism.
—Shirley Chisholm
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
—Shirley Chisholm
You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
—Shirley Chisholm
Topics: Progress
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
Topics: Politics
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