Shirley Chisholm Quotes

Shirley Chisholm Quotes.

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.
Shirley Chisholm
I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.
Shirley Chisholm
Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.
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
Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.
Shirley Chisholm
Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.
Shirley Chisholm
Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You

Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
Shirley Chisholm
If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
Shirley Chisholm
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl.
Shirley Chisholm
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.
Shirley Chisholm
At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm
I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm
Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchase

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