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Shirley Chisholm Quotes: 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.
         

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



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Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.



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



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

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



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I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.



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



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Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.



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I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.



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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 - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.



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Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.



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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.



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The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.



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One of the most valuable things you can do to create higher levels of trust is to trust others more. Don't wait for them to prove themselves to you. Trust them.



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When I buy, I buy players for the long term, not the short term because I do respect the club a lot and also the other clubs.



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It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.



Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.



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I feel sad that he's just a voice now.




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