Quotes about Shirley Chisholm

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take. It is perhaps unrealistic to hope that I can help give this nation any of those things, but that is what I believe I have to try to do.

I do not exaggerate; key votes have been lost because members whose votes were being counted on were in the gym).

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.