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Shirley Chisholm Quotes: America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
         

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.


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Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.



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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.



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



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I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.



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Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.



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Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.



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I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.



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Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.



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I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.



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