Shirley Chisholm Quotes

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to just 'the new family.' But that's where we are in the world, I guess. It's getting better; everything's heading in the right direction, whether it be race, sex, gender.

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

I think it's important to always have diversity, in our Congress or anywhere, but you also need diversity not just for women of color who are most underrepresented, but diversity in different walks of life.

There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.

I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Right is of no sex – Truth is of no color.

The work does not end with the abolition of slavery but only begins.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.... The Negro is going to get justice or this society will be ripped apart.

To ignore race and sex is racist and sexist.

We cannot go on, as we have gone on for more than half a century, with one great section of our population … set off from the real contribution to solving national issues because of a division of race lines …

We suspect that 25 years from now the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”