Quote by Shirley Chisholm
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my pa

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

Other quotes by Shirley Chisholm

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: Its a girl. – Shirley Chisholm

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Equality
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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. – Shirley Chisholm

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Society
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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. – Shirley Chisholm

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Prejudice is all in your head. – As seen on a button at evolvefish.com

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Prejudice

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. – Proverb

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Prejudice

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. – Nelson DeMille

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Prejudice

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. – Joseph Addison

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Prejudice

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy

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If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business. – Harvey Weinstein

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Business

If women didnt exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. – Aristotle Onassis

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Money

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings. – Mary Baker Eddy

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