"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."

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Source : Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Take Root Media

Shirley Chisholm

#Our Society Quotes #Skirts Quotes #Losing Quotes

“As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.”

Source : "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". Book by Scott McClellan, April 21, 2008.
“The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.”
“Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.”
“Your life is a product of your thoughts, what you think about all day becomes the basis of your life.”
“I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.”
“I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.”
“Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.”

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