Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
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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.Shirley Chisholm
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
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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.
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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
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