Shirley Chisholm Quotes
Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them and say, 'Listen to me.'
Chisholm, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed. Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
Hubert H. Humphrey, the Vice President-elect, departed from his presidentially cleared text in giving a speech on education. The President was not happy with this independence:
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.