Shirley Chisholm

"I dont measure America by its achievement but by its potential."

"Discrimination against women in politics is particularly unjust, because no political organization I have seen could function without women."

"One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine."

"Some other black political leaders scolded me. I told them that no one has a right to call himself a leader unless he dares to lead."

"Youth is in the process of being classed with the dark-skinned minorities as the object of popular scorn and hatred. It is as if the United States has to have a "nigger," a target for its hidden frustrations and guilt. Without someone to blame, like the Communists abroad and the young and black at home, middle America would be forced to consider whether all the problems of our time were in any way its own fault. That is the one thing it could never stand to do. Hence, it finds scapegoats."

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, Its a girl."