Shirley Chisholm Quotes
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.
Citations
Chisholm, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed. Houghton Mifflin, 1970, p. 162.
Related Quotes
Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, representing New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered on Bedford-Stuyvesant, for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In the 1972 United States presidential election, she became the first African-American candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.