She was born Shirley Anita Chisholm on November 30, 1924 in New York City, New York, United States. She was an American politician, educator, and author, while her position as the first black woman to the United States Congress in 1968, encouraged black people that they can achieve notable position in USA.
She had been represented 12th congressional district in New York for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. Shirley Chisholm quotes are highly considered crucial source of inspiration and motivation among not only black people who really love her, even others.
Shirley came out the first black candidate for a major party’s nomination for President of the United States in 1972. Here we bring most inspirational Shirley Chisholm quotes can provide you the courage to always fight for what think good or right.
However, she was the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, including the first lady to appear in a United States presidential debate. Her struggling career caused immense motivation for everyone. Chisholm was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.
Most beautiful quotes by Shirley Chisholm are the way to fulfill great bravery, and enormous audacity in you that can take you so close to your destination. We hope our motivational quotations collection will also be meeting your requirements. So at the end, please let us know about your opinion through our comment box
“Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.” _Shirley Chisholm
“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
“We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.” _Shirley Chisholm
“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”_Shirley Chisholm
“It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.” _Shirley Chisholm
“I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.” _Shirley Chisholm
“I am the people’s politician. If the day should ever come when the people can’t save me, I’ll know I’m finished.” _Shirley Chisholm
“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: “It’s a girl.” _Shirley Chisholm
“George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida, and he said to the people, ‘If you all can’t vote for me, don’t vote for those oval-headed lizards. Vote for Shirley Chisholm!’ And that crashed my votes, because they thought that I was in league with him to get votes.” _Shirley Chisholm
“Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them and say, ‘Listen to me.”_Shirley Chisholm
“My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn’t always discuss for reasons of political expediency.” _Shirley Chisholm
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” _Shirley Chisholm
“In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.” _Shirley Chisholm
“That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.” _Shirley Chisholm
“Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.” _Shirley Chisholm
“Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.” _Shirley Chisholm
“I’m finding all over America that people are sick and tired of the tweedle-dee dees and the tweedle-dee dums who constantly flip-flap from one side to another. People are interested in having candidates that are truthful.” _Shirley Chisholm
“I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is ‘not ready’ to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.” _Shirley Chisholm
“Of course 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.” _Shirley Chisholm
“I am and always will be a catalyst for change.” _Shirley Chisholm
“Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.” _Shirley Chisholm
“I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.” _Shirley Chisholm
“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
“Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster. ” _Shirley Chisholm
“I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.” _Shirley Chisholm
“I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.” _Shirley Chisholm
“I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the woman’s movement of this country, although I am a woman and I am equally proud of that.” _Shirley Chisholm
“The one thing you’ve got going: your one vote.” _Shirley Chisholm
“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” _Shirley Chisholm
“We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.” _Shirley Chisholm
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”_Shirley Chisholm
“I want history to remember me… not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.” _Shirley Chisholm
“I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.” _Shirley Chisholm
“At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.” _Shirley Chisholm
“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.” _Shirley Chisholm
“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl.” _Shirley Chisholm
“Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.” _Shirley Chisholm
“Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I’m actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people.” _Shirley Chisholm
“Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.” _Shirley Chisholm
“I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.” _Shirley Chisholm
“I’m looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I’m doing.” _Shirley Chisholm
“America is composed of all kinds of people – part of the difficulty in our nation today is due to the fact that we are not utilising the abilities and the talents of other brown and black peoples and females that have something to bring to the creativity and the rejuvenation and the revitalisation of this country.” _Shirley Chisholm