Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Shirley Chisholm (American Politician)

Shirley Anita Chisholm (1924–2005,) née St. Hill, was an American politician, educator, and author. She was the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress and the first African American to seek U.S. presidential nomination in a major political party in 1972.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Chisholm graduated cum laude from Brooklyn College in 1946 and earned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Teachers College. She became an expert in young children’s education, working as a consultant to the New York Bureau of Child Welfare (1959–64.) She was elected to the New York State Assembly 1964–68. In 1968, as a Democrat, she became the first black woman member of the House of Representatives.

Chisholm remained in Congress for seven terms, until 1983. She freely voiced her opposition to the Vietnam War and the House seniority system and expressed support for the urban poor. Chisholm was a vocal advocate for an activist government to redress economic, social, and political injustices. She frequently used her national prominence to bring attention to racial, gender, and class-based inequalities.

In 1972, Chisholm became the first black nominee for a major party’s nomination for U.S. President and the first woman to appear in a United States presidential debate. At the 1972 Democratic Convention, Chisholm won a 10 percent vote for the presidential nomination.

Chisholm wrote the autobiographical works Unbought and Unbossed (1970) and The Good Fight (1973.)

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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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