Shirley Chisholm Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• 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.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Heart, Justice For All, Law

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.106, Take Root Media

• Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, Racism, Justice

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.147, Take Root Media

• My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Differences, Justice, Skins

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.148, Take Root Media

• 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

  White, People, Justice

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

• One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Men, Thinking, Justice

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

• We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Class, Justice, Together

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