Shirley Chisholm - Politics Quotes

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I have met far more discrimination as a woman than being black in the field of politics.

Shirley Chisholm

My present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States: it is a beautiful fraud. Practitioners exchange gilded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own, their votes.

Shirley Chisholm

Politics as it is practiced in the United States... is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gilded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own, their votes.

Shirley Chisholm

I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.

Shirley Chisholm