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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/8002/">Quotes by <em>Chisholm, Shirley Anita</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 - January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms from 1968-1983. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. On January 23, 1972, she became the first African American candidate for President of the United States. She won 162 delegates. To date she is the closest any woman has ever come to winning the nomination for president by a major party. Other women who ran for President of the United States in 1972 include Linda Jenness and Evelyn Reed. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"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."

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"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."

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

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"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."

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