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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because

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

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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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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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Politics
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And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know. – James Earl Jones

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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society. – Bianca Jagger

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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. – Jean Baudrillard

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