Quotes by Shirley Chisholm

• When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
• You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
• 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.
• The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.
• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
• Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
• Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
• I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
• 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.
• At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.