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

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

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At present, our country needs womens idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. – Shirley Chisholm

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. – Oscar Wilde

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Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. – Wayne W. Dyer

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Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself. – From a Winston advertisement

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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. – G. K. Chesterton

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