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 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 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 ChisholmIn the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
Shirley ChisholmWhen the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nationโs slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).
Shirley Chisholm