Quotes from Shirley Chisholm

When morality comes up against profit, it's seldom profit that loses.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

What we need in this country today is leadership which has the courage to call for income tax reform to put the burden where it must be placed, on those who can afford to pay. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

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

Richard Nixon won in forty-nine states by, for one thing, appealing to the inherent racism of the American people. Voters saw him—a Harris poll two months after the election showed this plainly—as the candidate who would put a stop to school busing and the encroachment of blacks and other minorities on white jobs

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.

I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

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

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair