Quote of the Day (Shirley Chisholm, on Morality and Profit)

“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”—Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005), U.S. Representative (D-NY), Presidential candidate and civil-rights activist, in Unbought and Unbossed (1970)

The image accompanying this post, of Rep. Shirley Chisholm announcing her Presidential candidacy, was taken Jan. 25, 1972, by Thomas J. O'Halloran of U.S. News and World Reports.

Quote of the Day (E.B. White, on the ‘Trouble With the Profit System’)

“The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.” —E.B. White, One Man’s Meat (1942)