Unbought and Unbossed is Shirley Chisholm's account of her remarkable rise from young girl in Brooklyn to America's first African-American Congress...
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Dec 21, 2009
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"I do not want anyone to conclude that I have given up hope for our representative democracy; I have not, or I would not be where I am. It is because I value the idea so much that I am often keenly disappointed byt the reality." --pg.64
"I told them that no one has a right to call himself a leader unless he dares to lead. That means standing up to be counted on the side of his people, even at the risk of his political security."--pg.127
"My role, I More...
"I told them that no one has a right to call himself a leader unless he dares to lead. That means standing up to be counted on the side of his people, even at the risk of his political security."--pg.127
"My role, I More...
Feb 22, 2010
Unbought and Unbossed
By Shirley Chisholm
Take Root Media
Chisholm’s defense of women’s rights—in a memoir first published 40 years ago—could have been written yesterday. Chisholm, who was the first African American woman elected
to Congress and the first to run for president, still inspires us to activism five years after her death.
By Shirley Chisholm
Take Root Media
Chisholm’s defense of women’s rights—in a memoir first published 40 years ago—could have been written yesterday. Chisholm, who was the first African American woman elected
to Congress and the first to run for president, still inspires us to activism five years after her death.
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