122 Quotes by Shirley Chisholm

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

I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

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.

We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before. It can still happen.

Of my two "handicaps," being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.