Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholmwas an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to the United States Congress, and represented New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 November 1924
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.
I 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.
We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial 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.
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.
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 ...
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
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.
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.
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?