In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.
Shirley Chisholm
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
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.
In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.
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.
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
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.
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
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