"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
"That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free."
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Source: Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media
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