Shirley Chisholm Quotes About Country

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I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...
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"African-American and Female in One Candidate". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2008.

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That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.
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Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
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Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.147, Take Root Media

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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
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When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s 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).
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
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