When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
More Quotes from Shirley Chisholm:
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.Shirley Chisholm
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Shirley Chisholm
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm
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
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm
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