Quote by Shirley Chisholm
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the ne

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

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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Other Quotes from
Recovery (addiction/alcoholism)
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I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area. – William S. Burroughs

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Treating mental illness saves all of us money. Take addiction. We heard testimony that for every dollar spent on addiction treatment, we save $7. That – Kathleen Vinehout

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True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. – Bryant H. McGill

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Its just as hard… staying happily married as it is doing movies. – Tom Hanks

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