Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.
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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
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Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
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America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.
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I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.
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