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.'


Citations

Chisholm, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed. Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

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Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm
  • Born: November 30, 1924
  • Died: January 1, 2005
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

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.