“In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.”
― Shirley Chisholm
“In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.”
― Shirley Chisholm
“The most tragic error into which older people can fall is one that is common among educators and politicians. It is to use youth as scapegoats for the sins of their elders.”
― Shirley Chisholm, Unbought and Unbossed, 1970
“It is incomprehensible to me, the fear that can affect men in political offices. It is shocking the way they submit to forces they know are wrong and fail to stand up for what they believe. Can their jobs be so important to them, their prestige, their power, their privileges so important that they will cooperate in the degradation of our society just to hang on to those jobs?”
― Shirley Chisholm, Unbought and Unbossed