The Constitution they wrote ...

The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
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 Shirley Chisholm

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As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
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 Shirley Chisholm
Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports this view.
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To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
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 Shirley Chisholm
That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.
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I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.
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 Shirley Chisholm