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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm
Politics
Women
Determination
Country
Idealism
Needs
Present
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
Time
Idea
Congress
Extreme
Meeting
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm
Achievement
America
Measure
Potential
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm
Being
Obstacles
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm
Earth
Service
The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.
Shirley Chisholm
Time
Civil rights
Conflict
Liberals
Will
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
Personality
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm
Society
Talent
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm
Progress
Ideas
Complaining
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm
Morality
Profit