Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
Shirley ChisholmThat I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
Shirley ChisholmYou don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
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