Shirley Chisholm People Quotations

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.

I have never cared too much what people way. What I am interested in is what they do.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I am equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or special interests. I am the candidate of the people.