Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws -…

- Shirley Chisholm

The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no foundi…

- Shirley Chisholm

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

- Shirley Chisholm

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

- Shirley Chisholm

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

- Shirley Chisholm

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

- Shirley Chisholm

When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be rememb…

- Shirley Chisholm

I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

- Shirley Chisholm

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

- Shirley Chisholm