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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

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

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Politics
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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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Other Quotes from
Prejudice
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Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. – Albert Einstein

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Prejudice

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil? – Marquis De Sade

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Prejudice

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. – Ralph W. Sockman

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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

Random Quotes

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. – Stephen Hawking

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Science

I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue – a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they werent libelous or otherwise illegal. – Nicholson Baker

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Dreams

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. – Laura Riding

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Poetry

Im a hopeless romantic. Its disgusting. It really is. Ive seen While You Were Sleeping, like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing. – Jennifer Love Hewitt

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Romantic