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That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

Shirley Chisholm
Thinking, Years, Black
Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media
That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.