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 ChisholmAmerica has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
Shirley ChisholmI am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
Shirley ChisholmThere is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.
Shirley Chisholm