Youth is in the process of being classed with the dark-skinned minorities as the object of popular scorn and hatred. It is as if the United States ha… - Shirley Chisholm

I’m a politician. I detest the word because of the connotation that cling like slime to it. But for want of a better term, I must use it. I have been in politics for twenty years and in that time, I’ve learned a few things about the role of women in politics. The major thing that I have learned is that women are the backbone of America’s political organizations: they are the letter writers, the envelope stuffers, they are the speech writers and the largest numbers of potential voters. Yet, they are but rarely the standard bearers or elected officials.

The income for domestics in this country. Domestic workers. Every year we had the increase in income domestic workers never, never fit into the scale of things.

I did this [ran for president as a Democrat instead of third party] because I feel that the time for tokenism and symbolic gestures is past. Women need to plunge into the world of politics and battle it out toe to toe on the same ground as male counterparts.