07/04/2022
Shirley Chisholm: “We Americans are a dynamic people because of our rugged individuality and our cherished diversity, because of our belief in human dignity, because of our generosity and good will to our fellow man — and most importantly, because of our tradition of moving forward, forward to actively confront those problems which plague us in a world growing more complex each year.”
Shirley Chisholm: “Perhaps even more fundamental is our loss of the feeling of community; shock at the continuing injustices and inequities in the land that we love; our suspicions of pervasive constitutional incompetence and corruption; our feeling that there’s an absence of respectable authority in our nation; and our loss of confidence in ourselves, with apathy or despair arising from the conviction that we are powerless to make ourselves heard or felt in remedying our ills.”
Shirley Chisholm: “Fellow Americans, we have looked in vain to the Nixon Administration for the courage, the spirit, the character, and the words to lift us, to bring out the best in us, to rekindle in each of us our faith in the American Dream.”
Shirley Chisholm: “Yet, all that we have received in return is just another smooth exercise in political manipulation, deceit and deception, callousness and indifference to our individual problems, and the disgusting playing of divisive politics — pinning the young against the old, labor against management, North against South, black against white.“
Markeye- some of you may get tired of the post of black truth. Especially on business profiles, but these truth affect my work ethic and how I maneuver every single day in this country. Some of you may feel that alot has changed, but we have so far to go. As individual independence everyone plays a role in creating a better place for us all. No one is free until we are all free.
