shirley chisholm

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

“ Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased. ”

“ I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do. ”

“ Im looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what Im doing. ”

“ Apparently all they know here in Washington about Brooklyn is that a tree grew there. ”

“ When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. ”

“ When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst for change. ”

“ It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a fact. ”

“ Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. ”

“ The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. ”