"I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quoâ€¦ to give a voice to the people the major candidates were ignoring. What I hope most is that now there will be others who will feel themselves as capable of running for high political office as any wealthy, good-looking white male."

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Source : "The Good Fight". Book by Shirley Chisholm, 1973.

Shirley Chisholm

#Running Quotes #Odds Quotes #Voice Quotes

“You gotta judge a man by his principles.”

Source : Song: MC Hammer, Album: Teflon Don, 2010
“A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!”

Source : M. R. James (1987). “Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories”, p.647, Oxford Paperbacks
“As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.”
“Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.”
“Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And we cannot fix the exact point at which our empire shall stop; we have reached a position in which we must not be content with retaining but must scheme to extend it, for, if we cease to rule others, we are in danger of being ruled ourselves. Nor can you look at inaction from the same point of view as others, unless you are prepared to change your habits and make them like theirs.”
“The wronged side is always the safest.”
“I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain.”
“After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense, many players will have a vague idea of what you are talking about but nothing more. Even a fragmented understanding of these concepts will prove useful though, and eventually they will improve as these lessons are assimilated by repetition and example.”

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