Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution. — Shirley Chisholm

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster. — Shirley Chisholm

Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want. — Shirley Chisholm

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black. — Shirley Chisholm

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black. — Shirley Chisholm

I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the woman’s movement of this country, although I am a woman and I am equally proud of that. — Shirley Chisholm

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics. — Shirley Chisholm

I’ve always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black…men are men. — Shirley Chisholm

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free. — Shirley Chisholm

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

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers–a great pity, on both counts. — Shirley Chisholm

In the end anti–black, anti–female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti–humanism. — Shirley Chisholm

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place. — Shirley Chisholm

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. — Shirley Chisholm

There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice. — Shirley Chisholm

I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do. — Shirley Chisholm

That’s what’s wrong with the country. There are too many ‘good soldiers’ accepting too many bad decisions. — Shirley Chisholm

All Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice. — Shirley Chisholm

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. — Shirley Chisholm

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. — Shirley Chisholm